Puritan Ideology Quotes

Conquering Hispaniola shall provide England with the means to take forward its Puritan Revolution.

The Puritan attack on Christmas was only a minor expression of religious and social ideas which were revolutionary in their impact on the national life in general. Christmas was criticized because of its “Popish” antecedents and because as the chief national holiday it was especially associated with drinking, dancing, play acting, gambling, and other evils.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

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

These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of redemption. In fact they glorified in the slightness of their numbers, the self-purifying troop of Gideon's army... stormtroopers in the front line of the Reformation.

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

To the Puritan all things are impure.