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There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.
— Camille Paglia
O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).
— Richard Baxter
As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
— Richard Baxter
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
— Tom Selleck
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
— Penn Jillette
Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?
— Richard Baxter
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
— Lord Melbourne
There may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in an uncertain something.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
— Richard Baxter
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
— Youssef Ziedan
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
— Richard Baxter
We will live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerome, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger ... Latimer(69) [.]
— Richard Baxter
So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
— Richard Baxter
I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.
— Kenneth Oppel
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.
— Mary McCarthy
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
— Richard Baxter
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.
— Florence King
[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).
— Richard Baxter
American society is still puritanical.
— Nick Nolte
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
Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?
— Richard Baxter
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
— Kate Millett
He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).
— Richard Baxter
[O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).
— Richard Baxter