Puritanism Quotes Quotes

“A naked breast is no more a threat to the well-being of a child than a naked hand or foot. So from a European point of view, American media censorship seems utterly ridiculous.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York

“In the West, we've gone from living in holier-than-thou societies to more-liberal-than-thou ones. Call it secular piety but both are just different forms of the same sanctimoniousness.”
― Stewart Stafford

“If those also of the younger sort would ask of themselves, why God should not have the flower and marrow of their age? And why they should give their strength to the devil?”
― Richard Sibbes, The Soul's Conflict and Victory Over Itself by Faith

“Despair is a high point of atheism, it takes away God and Christ both at once. Judas, in betraying our Saviour, was an occasion of his death as man, but in despairing he did what lay in him to take away his life as God.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Soul's Conflict and Victory Over Itself by Faith

“Incluso algunos, al ver la estructura exacta del cuerpo de un hombre, la figura, la posición y las conexiones mutuas de los diversos miembros y venas, se han convencido (y es suficiente para convencer a todos) de que es obra de la sabiduría y el poder divino.”
― John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence