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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
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 Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.
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.
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.