Quotes Tagged With :puritanical

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

Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]....

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

O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours....

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity,....

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

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

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

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not....