Puritan Quote by Wendell Phillips Download Open image “The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.” — Wendell Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Puritan Religion Soul Thinking
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart. — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“The Puritans believed that the identity of the Saints had long since been determined by God. This meant that there was nothing a person… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine." — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
