In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
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.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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.
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
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.
Christian life means sacrifice.
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.