24 Quotes About Puritanism

Let the whole Earth be filled with his Glory! Thus the LORD was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to give us their Land for an Inheritance: Who remembred us in our low Estate, and redeemed us out of our Enemies Hands: Let us therefore praise the LORD for his Goodness and his wonderful Works to the Children of Men!

The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft, that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but undeniable loathing of the immigrant swarms he felt were threatening the traditions and monuments of his beloved New England and the whole Eastern seaboard. (And hadn’t Lovecraft done some ghost-writing for a man with a name like Castries? Caster? Carswell?)

Pain, indeed, makes the time seem to go on very slowly; an hour seems like a day and a day like a week.

To the people that don't like this kind of thing, I'm sorry, but this is what you get when you try to repress human desire. It quadruples in size, grows hair, teeth and extra arms, then it comes to your house and has a loud party that never ends in your front yard. So, you know, learn your lesson already.

Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher.

One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard.