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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with w — Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 17: Sermons and Discourses, 1730-1733
...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispel — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnatio — Thomas Brooks
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive — Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
Let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory! Thus the LORD was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to — John Mason, A Brief History of the Pequot War
But GOD was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven: Thu — John Mason, A Brief History of the Pequot War
When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, — Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279). — Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H.L. Mencken
Annie's message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. Sh — Deborah A.Bowman
It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that — Philip Pullman
If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in thei — Benjamin Franklin, The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rathe — J.I. Packer
The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15). — Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity — Jonathan Edwards, The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns. — Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer
[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.] — Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guill — Albert Camus
O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Becau — John Bunyan, The Holy War