Quotes from Angela Elwell Hunt

the Christian Bible, one turns the page after Malachi and finds Matthew as if only a few days fell between the activities of the prophet and the arrival of Jesus Christ. In reality, however, four hundred so-called "silent years" lie between the Old Testament and New, a time when God did not speak to Israel through His prophets.

God also prepared to fulfill His promise to the serpent in Eden: "I will put animosity between you and the woman, and between your descendant and her descendant; he will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel" (Gen.

HaShem came to him in a dream at night and said, 'What should I give you?' And Solomon said, 'I am but a youth. I don't know how to go out or come in. So give Your servant a mind of understanding to judge Your people, to discern between good and evil—for who is able to judge this great people of Yours?

the outcome of these things. As our King Solomon wrote, 'Man may throw the dice, but HaShem decides the outcome.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. —William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

But Adonai's ways are marvelous and unexpected.

have done according to your words. I have given you a wise and discerning mind, so that there has been none like you before you, nor shall anyone like you arise after you.' And then HaShem said He would give Solomon riches and long life, as well.

For God never sleeps, and though He may not communicate as we expect Him to, He

The prince frowned again. "The name? Why do you not speak your God's name?" "Because His name is holy," I answered, "and not to be invoked lightly.

I've heard that about your people. But how can one God do everything? He would have to be huge, and he would have to be everywhere

to heaven, He is there, and if I make my bed in the grave, He is there, too. If I take the wings of the dawn and settle on the other side of the sea, even there His hand will lead me, and His right hand will lay hold of me.'" The words of the psalm

slave. And behold, our holy place, our beauty, and our glory have been laid waste; the Gentiles have profaned it. Why should we live any longer?" And Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned greatly. 1 Maccabees 2:1–14

Prosperity and wealth have convinced us to be content in the world, and so we close our eyes, ignoring the world's need as well as its evil.

Samson opened my eyes to things that could not be seen with human eyes. Adonai may be invisible, but as Samson said, so is love, and nothing is more powerful.

The Samaritans were relatives—a people who claimed to be descended from Israelites who survived the Babylonian invasion and intermarried with native peoples—a practice forbidden by the Law of Moses.

tribe—a nation—will not change until it realizes how low it has fallen. When my people realize that they have loved bondage with leisure and sin better than strenuous liberty with

My studies had taught me that Israel did have a divinely ordained royal line, but it sprang from David and the tribe of Judah, not Levi.

Why should I worry about that until it happens? That would spoil all the joy I feel today.

should not enslave another. Slavery is an awful business.

righteousness, they will repent and return to the Lord.

Yet I knew life did not end with death. David spoke of living after this life, and so did Job. Enoch and Elijah had been taken away, and where did they go? Surely they were with HaShem.

And a happy man had no reason to fight.

through every cloud God wants me to unlearn something. He wants me to simplify things, to put other things and other people aside until it is just me and Him. He doesn't want me to do anything more, He wants me to sit at His feet and listen to His voice. When once again He is the Father and I am the child, our relationship is restored.

Sometimes, after we lay ourselves down before HaShem, we simply know what is right.