Quotes Tagged With :puritanical

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

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

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

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

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

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by....

[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,....

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

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