Puritan Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old puritan quotes, puritan sayings, and puritan proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Wendell Phillips
The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. Mason Cooley
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. G. K. Chesterton
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart. Adam Nicolson
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. Wendell Phillips
The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains. William Henry O'Connell
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. D. H. Lawrence
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. Leland Ryken
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. Mignon McLaughlin
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. H. L. Mencken
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme. Leland Ryken
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice. Leland Ryken
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened. Phillips Brooks
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that. J.I. Packer
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. Kenneth Hare
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas B. Macaulay
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. Leland Ryken
Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe. Heywood Broun
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. H. L. Mencken
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. Carlisle Floyd