Quotes Tagged With :puritan

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

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning....

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this....

What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard....

What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying....

The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand :....

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing....