#puritan

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#orthodox #puritanical #twice

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....) ↗

— Ross Douthat

#exercise #puritanical #purity #vanity #yoga

God will try our faith before he satisfies our sight. ↗

— William Bates

#reformed #faith

For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#puritan #life

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#actor #always #being #father #going