Christian Quote by Leland Ryken

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

— Leland Ryken

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

— Tim Kreider

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

— Wendell Phillips

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God…

— Leland Ryken

“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

“By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into slavery without…

— Jack Weatherford

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

— Sam Levenson

The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ.…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The creator is not puritan. A creature need not work for a living; creatures may simply steal and suck and be blessed for all…

— Annie Dillard