In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
— Leland Ryken
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
— Alice Morse Earle
Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. — William Bates
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. — Kenneth Hare
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin
