A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken 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
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we… — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual… — Hugh Hefner 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
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
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
I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times.… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
“It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. — Tim Powers 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
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't… — Rene Auberjonois 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
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