Christian Puritan Quotes

#1. Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense.

William Bates

#2. I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].

Cornel West

#3. The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

Thomas Brooks

#4. In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

Leland Ryken

#5. In spite of the Puritan-Yankee equation of virtue with well-being, Negroes had excellent reasons for doubting that money was made or kept by any very striking adherence to the Christian virtues; it certainly did not work that way for black Christians.

James Baldwin

#6. When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

James Hillman

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

Thomas Brooks