Jupiter Hammon Quotes

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

If you lose Heaven, you lose everything; if you gain Heaven, you gain everything.

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

She died praying that she might die.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.