Author: Jupiter Hammon

Quotes

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

- Jupiter Hammon

Good servants frequently make good masters.

Good servants frequently make good masters.

- Jupiter Hammon

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

- Jupiter Hammon

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.

- Jupiter Hammon

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

- Jupiter Hammon

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

It is our duty to be faithful, not with eye service as men pleasers.

- Jupiter Hammon

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

- Jupiter Hammon

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

- Jupiter Hammon

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.

- Jupiter Hammon

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