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.
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
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.
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
