Faith Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“be wary of preaching that is so rigid and unforgiving of human nature.”

— Devin Murphy

“For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.”

— Tim Mackintosh-Smith

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

“You know you're a Puritan when you feel that even the Bible needs to be cleaned up.”

— James Maguire

“My passionate puritan!”

— Violet Winspear

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I think that deep inside yourself, in your heart, you're a Puritan. Yes, a Puritan. Or an ascetic; a sort of hermit monk. I…

— James Ramsey Ullman

“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”

— Tim Kreider

“Sometimes it was difficult to accept the terrible lengths people would go to for their beliefs, particularly when they fooled themselves into thinking they…

— Anna Lee Huber

“That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.”

— C.S. Lewis

“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.”

— Oscar Wilde

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do…

— Anonymous