"The Puritans exemplified maturity; we don't. We are spiritual dwarfs. A much-travelled leader, a Native American (be it said) has declared that he finds North American Protestantism man-centered, manipulative, success oriented, self-indulgent, and sentimental, as it blatantly is to be 3,000 miles wide and an inch deep. The Puritans, by contrast, as a body, were giants. They were great souls serving a great God." - Dr. J. I. Packer - A Quest For Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life
