Life Quote by Stephen J. Nichols

“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

“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.”

— C.S. Lewis

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

— Leland Ryken

American society is still puritanical.

— Nick Nolte

“Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to make the left the true heirs…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Sam Levenson

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

— James Young

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“In our nineteenth century the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. Certain things have been unlearnt, and this is good, provided other things are…

— Victor Hugo

“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

“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.”

— Lawrence Durrell