Jupiter Hammon Quotes

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

He that does evil hates the light.

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I know what sin is.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

Blame is for God and small children.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.