Anne Hamilton > Quotes

“Take a good long look at The Lord’s Prayer. It’s all ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’. There is no ‘me’, ‘I’ or ‘mine’ anywhere.”
― Anne Hamilton, God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name

“Shadow is Light’s child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.”
― Anne Hamilton, Many-Coloured Realm

“Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its glorious promise.”
― Anne Hamilton, God's Panoply: The Armour of God and the Kiss of Heaven

“From the moment Adam named his wife ‘Eve’ her defining moment was eminently predictable. Almost inevitably, it was going to revolve around an incident with a serpent.

Her name Hebrew name Hawwah may mean life or living or mother of all living but it is particularly close to the Aramaic word, ‘hiwya’, serpent.”
― Anne Hamilton, God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name

“For the Hebrews, names provided a direct link with the Creator. They understood words as being the creative fire of God, the ‘black fire on white fire’ of His Law. Every utterance and every act of creation through which He revealed Himself was not only word made flesh but fire made flesh.

The word for ‘being’, yesh, ‘to exist’ or ‘to have substance’ was flame–breathed.

The word for ‘fire’, esh, was embedded in the word for ‘being’ and in the very notion of ‘being human’.

The rabbis were said to have asked: Why is the word for ‘woman’, ishah? Because she is fire, esh. Why is the word for ‘man’, ish? Because he too is fire, esh.

They noted that when the Hebrew letters for ‘man’ and ‘woman’ came together they produced a new word as part of the union: yah, a reference to Yahweh, the Name of God.”
― Anne Hamilton, God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name

“If this interpretation of nashamah by the rabbis is right ... then it is naming that creates soul.”
― Anne Hamilton, God's Panoply: The Armour of God and the Kiss of Heaven