Quotes About Puritan Religion

#1. The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Wendell Phillips

#2. An older, Puritan approach to Scripture tended to prevail in the American South, where the Bible was regarded as a set of definite, positive laws

Mark A. Noll

#3. A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

H.L. Mencken

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

William Bates

#5. How will I know the difference?" "Wounds bring drama and trauma. They don't bring comfort.

Neil Strauss

#6. Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust;
Fear not the things thou suffer must;
For, whom he loves he doth chastise,
And then all tears wipes from their eyes.

William Bradford
Plymouth Colony Governor

Nathaniel Philbrick

#7. You think too much. Open your heart to him, Syd. You deserve love. You get me? Stop thinking. Start living. Okay? Safe travels.

Kym Grosso

#8. I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#9. Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

J. Martin Klotsche

#10. The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

Artemas Ward

#11. The idea that Wisdom could be a divine hypostasis - an aspect of God that is a distinct being from God that nonetheless is itself God - is rooted in a fascinating passage of the Hebrew Bible, Proverbs 8. ... God made all things in his wisdom, so much so that Wisdom is seen as a co-creator of sorts.

Bart D. Ehrman

#12. I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Ellen Goodman

#13. What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Love cannot burn constantly.

Pierce Brosnan

#15. When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!

Rhonda Byrne