"The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth."

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Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.22, Harper Collins

Leland Ryken

#Wealth Quotes #Puritan Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.”
“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.”
“Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.”
“Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.”
“They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.”
“When you grow up in Bel Air and shop only in expensive boutiques on Rodeo and Robertson, you develop a kind of allergy to anything unpretty -clothes, cars... even people... you start thinking that if you hang around unattractive people, their homeliness can be contagious.”
“That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.”

Source : Richard Hough (2001). “Great naval battles of the 20th century”
“I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief.”

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