#puritan

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#become #belief #common #community #done

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#brought #charge #england #february #most

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#culture #embracing #i #know #puritanical

I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#had #i #puritanical #really #strong

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart. ↗

— Adam Nicolson

#puritans #love

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#fear #freedom #hypocrisy #literature #perversion

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. ↗

— John Frame

#although #among #been #churches #consciences

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#reformed #beauty

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

#puritan #experience