Quote by C.S. Lewis

“When Winthrop defended the colony, he wanted to create a religious community that would be saved from the “corrupted” bastions of learning, Oxford and…

— Nancy Isenberg

“Easy believism is a modern form of the ancient heresy of antinomianism.”

— R.C. Sproul

“unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord obviously thought…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“But these complaints never appeared in the papers. Those who had actually seen ugly incidents were surprised to read in the Telegraph, that the…

— C.S. Lewis

“I try to be honorable. I know that's embarrassing to hear. It's embarrassing to say. But I believe most of the nonsense that Thoreau…

— Robert B. Parker

“The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by…

— Mark Twain

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician’s invention.”

— Emil Cioran

“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted…

— Sarah Vowell

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Could I believe in the doctrine without believing in the deity?”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr