Quotes Tagged With :puritan

[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and....

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was....

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your....

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic....

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the....

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will....

Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;Fear not the things thou suffer must;For, whom he loves he doth....