Puritan Quotes - Page 2

• Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

  Stephen Charnock

  Religious, Nature, Son

  Stephen Charnock (1840). “The Doctrine of Regeneration: Selected from the Writings of Stephen Charnock”, p.102

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• The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

  H. L. Mencken

  Thinking, Religion, Trying

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

  Leland Ryken

  People, Groups, Prejudice

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

  Gore Vidal

  Mother, Country, America

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• To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

  D. H. Lawrence

  All Things

  'Etruscan Places' (1932) 'Cerveteri'

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• Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Caring

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• You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

  James Young

  Country, Past, Four

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• Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

  Caleb Cushing

  Men, Liberty, Doctrine

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• The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

  J. I. Packer

  Looks, Firsts, Ethics

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• Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Unique, Reality

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• The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

  John Calvin

  Peaceful, Doe, Delight

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• For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

  Howard Nemerov

  Class, Literature, Serious

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “Journal of the Fictive Life”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Heart, Mean

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• The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Father, Men, Needs

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• In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

  Paul Washer

  Biblical, Tools, Research

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• 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

  Christian, Way, Tradition

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• The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

  William Henry O'Connell

  Catholic, Remains

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• He who stops being better stops being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Writing

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• Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

  John Flavel

  Baby, Religious, Prayer

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.33, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

  Heywood Broun

  Thinking, Devil, Figures

  Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”

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• Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fate, Cities, America

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• The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

  Leland Ryken

  Wealth, Obsessed, Danger

  Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it awful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake.

  John Bunyan

  Encouragement, Adversity, Support

  John Bunyan, George Barrell Cheever (1857). “The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: Wherein is Discovered the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey, and Safe Arrival at the Desired Country...”, p.60

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• Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Glasses, Church

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

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