#puritan

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

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

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#reformed #faith