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Puritan Quotes by Leland Ryken
- No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an…
- For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
- The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was…
- The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
- In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
- The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
More Puritan Quotes
- The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,… — Margaret Atwood
- A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser
- I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde
- A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H. L. Mencken
- The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs
- And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now… — John F. Kennedy
- Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and… — Joel Beeke
- 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
- 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
- I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you… — Willem Dafoe
- If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll