Author: Jupiter Hammon

Quotes

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

- 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

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

- 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

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

- Jupiter Hammon

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

- Jupiter Hammon

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

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

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

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