For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.