Worldly Saints Quotes

“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, Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“Vincit qui patitur [he who suffers conquers].”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do,”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“Richard Rogers was lecturing at Wethersfield, Essex, someone told him, “Mr. Rogers, I like you and your company very well, but you are so precise.” To which Rogers replied, “O Sir, I serve a precise God.”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“Covenant denoted a relationship of mutual trust and obligation.”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“For the past three centuries Western civilization has been dominated by a secularized perversion of the original Puritan work ethic.”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“At the risk of oversimplification, it could be said that Reformation Protestantism was a religion of literacy, domestic prayer, and the family bible in the family home, all buttressed by the public sermon.”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“One consequence of the Puritan doctrine of Creation is that it led logically to a repudiation of the old sacred-secular dichotomy that had dominated thinking for so long.”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“O calvinismo não ensina uma ética de autoconfiança, como ensina nossa ética moderna do trabalho. É, ao contrário, uma ética da graça: quaisquer recompensas tangíveis advindas do trabalho são o dom da graça de Deus.”
― Leland Ryken, Santos no Mundo: Os puritanos como realmente eram

“No coração do puritanismo estava a crença de que a graça de Deus é a fonte de todo benefício humano e que não se pode adquiri-la por mérito humano.”
― Leland Ryken, Santos no Mundo: Os puritanos como realmente eram

“Os puritanos sabiam que a Escritura é a regra inalterada da santidade, e eles nunca se permitiram esquecer disso.”
― Leland Ryken, Santos no Mundo: Os puritanos como realmente eram

“The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“Puritan leaders, at least, valued an educated mind over material riches. Cotton Mather admonished his congregation with the comment, “If your main concern be to get the riches of this world for your children, and leave a belly full of this world unto them, it looks very suspiciously as if you were yourselves the people of this world, whose portion is only in this life.”30”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints

“William Perkins said, “The end of a man’s calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.”
― Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints