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Jupiter Hammon

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

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Donna Grant

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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Donna Grant

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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Donna Grant

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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Donna Grant

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

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Donna Grant

"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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Donna Grant

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

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Donna Grant

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

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Donna Grant

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

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Donna Grant

"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

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Donna Grant

"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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Jupiter Hammon
"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."

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Jupiter Hammon
"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."

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

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

God

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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."

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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."

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Jupiter Hammon
"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?"

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Jupiter Hammon
"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."

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Jupiter Hammon
"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."

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

Time

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