Babe Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

— Mignon McLaughlin

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

— Adam Nicolson

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

— R. H. Tawney

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

— Wendell Phillips

Bad theology will eventually hurt people and dishonor God in proportion to its badness.

— John Piper

“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

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

— Tim Kreider

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

— John Burroughs

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

— Susie Bright

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

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