We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
It's not a performance to impress the Puritans
democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. . . . You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error.
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.
