What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
American society is still puritanical.
But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.