Quotes About Puritans

First, the Puritans showed a profound dependence upon the Holy Spirit in everything they said and did. They felt keenly their inability to bring anyone to Christ as well as the magnitude of conversion.

The Puritans understood that the doctrines of atonement, justification, and reconciliation are meaningless apart from a true understanding of God who condemns sin, and atones for sinners, justifies them, and reconciles them to Himself.

Los predicadores puritanos en general tenían un buen cimiento en los idiomas bíblicos y la enseñanza clásica.

Los puritanos quedarían espantados ante la actual tendencia de la evangelización moderna que pretende meramente rescatar a los pecadores del infierno pero posterga la sumisión de estos al señorío soberano de Cristo para más tarde.

Para los puritanos, el sermón no solo gira en torno a la Escritura, sino que literalmente existe dentro de la Palabra de Dios; el texto no está en el sermón, sino que el sermón está en el texto… En pocas palabras, escuchar un sermón es estar en la Biblia»

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

There are no French Puritans.

You can't understand America without understanding the Puritans. In many ways, we're still living out their legacy in ways that are good and bad.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think.

The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted by the Puritans' vision of themselves as God's chosen people, as a beacon of righteousness that all others are to admire.

Whatever differences in polity, all Puritans shared the same fundamental theological commitment to Reformed theology (Calvinism).

During the reign of James I some Puritans grew discouraged at the pace of reform and separated entirely from the Church of England. After a short sojourn in the Netherlands, one group of "separating Puritans," better known historically as the "Pilgrims," eventually established the Plymouth Colony in 1620 in what is now southeastern Massachusetts.

Puritans don't laugh—except at the sight of a burning witch.

For some reason, no one wanted to give me money to make a movie written in early modern English that involved a lot of puritans praying - even if it did involve a witch.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Since the time of the Puritans and the religious wars of the previous century, England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.