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 were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

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.