Quote by Howard Kaepplein

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -…

— James Young

“The Puritans are conventionally considered more "moderate" than the Pilgrims. This is like calling al-Qaeda more moderate than ISIS. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans…

— Kurt Andersen

“A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity, before the church had been corrupted by centuries of…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

— Leland Ryken

The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.

— Sam Levenson

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were…

— Phillips Brooks

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

— Christopher Moore

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The…

— J. I. Packer

Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!

— Bill Maher

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

— Wendell Phillips