Jupiter Hammon Quotes

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

Jupiter Hammon

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

Jupiter Hammon

#3. 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

#4. Okay, little car, you are protesting roads. They are death traps for animals. They are environmentally unsound impervious surfaces that cause runoff. I understand this. But could we protest in the summer?

Carrie Jones

#5. If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Jupiter Hammon

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

Jupiter Hammon

#7. Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.

D. Todd Christofferson

#9. He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

#10. There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Jupiter Hammon

#11. I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

Jupiter Hammon

#12. Yet he did possess one of the vital requirements to increase his earnings. Within him was a strong desire to earn more,

George S. Clason

#13. I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

Michael Gambon

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

Jupiter Hammon

#17. You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

Jupiter Hammon

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

Jupiter Hammon

#19. 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

#20. What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew Barrymore for. Drew's a great friend of mine. But it's like, "No, we want more of an American type of girl."

Eva Mendes

#21. You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

Jupiter Hammon

#22. I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

Joel Greenblatt

#23. It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out.

Jupiter Hammon

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

Jupiter Hammon

#25. Good servants frequently make good masters.

Jupiter Hammon

#26. If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.

Jupiter Hammon

#27. Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.

Oscar Isaac

#28. 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

#29. As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

Jupiter Hammon

#30. When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not only by those of my own colour, but by a number of the white people, who thought they might do good among their servants.

Jupiter Hammon

#31. The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.

Zack Snyder

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

Jupiter Hammon

#33. The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.

Paul Hoffman

#34. Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

Jupiter Hammon

#35. 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

#36. He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Jupiter Hammon

#37. Have I humbled myself to serve others or instead have I been demanding of others? Do I

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