Leland Ryken Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Leland Ryken quotes and sayings (educator). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.”
“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.”
“For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.”
“Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.”
“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.”
“Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.”
“When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.”
“The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.”
“With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.”
“Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.”
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