24 Puritan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. Robert E. Lee

You Old Wish Duty All Things Puritan More Never Like Cannot Should Your Less Things

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. Umberto Eco

Success Good Latin States Puritan Mythology He Countries Catholic Sinner Person Ethic Successful Successful Person Who United United States

In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried. Alice Morse Earle

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse. Ben Bernanke

Depression People Made Back Saw Worse Out Morality Puritan Excess Get Squeeze Just Thing Things Necessary Chance

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass

Art Puritan Pointless Understand Same Irrational Wonderfully Hard Necessary

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. Howard Nemerov

Work Class Business Puritan Retail Over Practically Middle Middle Class Again Novel Serious Why Conscientious Application Jewish

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. John Frame

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort. John Updike

Art Spiritual Respect Difficult Enough Drawn Tell Puritan Takes Because Still Effort Artists Us Who Strenuous

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances. Lee Marvin

Emotions Father Classic Puritan Check Up Hold Appearances Keep

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme. Leland Ryken

Life God First Sense Else Relation Everything Everything Else Valuing Puritan Puritans Putting Greatest Priorities Theme Strengths

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Martin Filler

First City John Puritan Envisioned Most Hill Gospel Saint Proverbial According Matthew Persistent American Via Shores Images

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds. Rick Wakeman

Heart Bit Puritan He Rock Sounds His Roller

They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers. Robert Green Ingersoll

Man Every Fathers Out Find Comprehend Puritan Write Allowed Know Him Read Glory How His Capacity Should Believed Every Man

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains. William H. O'Connell

Puritan Remains Catholic Passed

Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world. Robert Eggers

Bible World Creation Digging Mind-Set Extreme Bit Wrap About Puritan Had Head Geneva Involved Read Around Gospels Understand Get Trying Quite Quite A Bit Predestination Really Now

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