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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
— Wendell Phillips
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
For puritans of whatever faith, God is in the detail.
— Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
— Leland Ryken
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.
— Sam Levenson
The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
— Edmund Morgan
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
— Don Marquis
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
— Cynthia Ozick
The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
— Edmund Morgan
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,
— Bernard Bailyn
He stopped trying hard when she praised him, she had noticed. Puritans understand the value of delayed gratification.
— Lauren Groff
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
— Oscar Wilde
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
— Leland Ryken
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
— Leland Ryken
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!
— Bill Maher
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
— Tim Powers
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
— H.L. Mencken
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
— James Russell Lowell
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
— Louis Kronenberger
It's not a performance to impress the Puritans
— Martin Tyler
