Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.” — James Maguire Copy Share Image
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their… — James Frey Copy Share Image
On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
“Father Brown smiled faintly. ‘I suppose in one sense,’ he said, ‘it was a matter of special knowledge; almost a professional matter,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...… — Mark Thornton Copy Share Image
America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake.… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds. — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. — Kenneth Hare Copy Share Image
I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one. — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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