Angela Elwell Hunt > Quotes

“I've never been one to mourn the passing of what could have been a promising relationship. When Jeff broke my heart in the ninth grade, I decided then and there that if a guy couldn't see that I was something special, I'd say good-bye with no regrets. Not that I think I'm more special than anyone else, mind you. But if a thing is not meant to be, I figure it's just not part of God's infinite plan.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Velvet Shadow

“And let me tell you - carrying sad memories will wear you out. You've got to put them down walk away. Do whatever you must to put emotional space between yourself and your past. That's the only way you're going to make it through.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Note

“What would you say to a loved one if you had only a few seconds to impart a last message? What language does love speak?
Some of you speak love with wine and roses. For other, "I love you," is best said by breakfast in bed, carefully set aside sport sections, or night out at the movies, complete with buttered popcorn.
Children spell love T-I-M-E. So, I think, do older folks.
Teenagers spell it T-R-U-S-T. Sometimes parents spell love N-O.
But no matter what the letters, the emotion beneath the wording must be tangible, demonstrable, and sincere.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Note

“Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Magdalene

“But adolescence is a time of hurts.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt

“A proud man will be set against all that is holy, for he is the God of his own world.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Esther: Royal Beauty

“Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Golden Cross

“The truth may hurt ... but it's the lie that leaves a scar.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Truth Teller

“Tell me," he said, leaning forward with his elbows braced on his knees, "tell me how you were able to find peace about your situation. How did you forgive the man who hurt you?"

She studied him. Apparently he'd been thinking long and hard about something that disturbed him. The corners of his mouth were tight, and his eyes slightly shiny. Had he been putting himself through this sort of stressful heart searching every night?
"I struggled, yes." She closed her hands to resist the impulse to stroke his cheek. "But when I saw Buddy sitting there, I realized he had already paid a price. And I'm not his judge-I will never be. He has to answer to God, not only for what he did to me, but for how he treated everyone. Knowing that I'm only a tiny piece of the picture-knowing that, I could smile and let it go. I don't really think about him anymore, and I don't hate him. Truthfully, I mostly feel sorry for him."
Erik hung his head. "It sounds so easy when you say it. So sensible."
"I'm not saying what worked for me will for everyone-I mean, "I'm not much of an expert."
Aren't you?" His mouth twisted in wry amusement. "Let me see-instead of being angry at that church for running me off, I need to realize they've paid a price?
"They lost you as a minister. And who knows? Maybe what they did soured other people in town.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Five Miles South of Peculiar

“Every time God sent a new baby in the world, he was giving mankind another chance to make things right' Babies are a bundle of hope”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Offering

“I want them to see Yeshua’s gentleness in my countenance and hear HaShem’s patience in my voice.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, The Woman from Lydia

“the Father uses the valley of shadow to teach you about His sufficiency and goodness. Don’t despair, child, while you’re walking through it.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Passing Strangers

“...appreciation is like an insurance policy. it has to be renewed every now and then.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt

“Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Magdalene

“Sometimes, we do ourselves a disservice to yearn for what we've lost. For if we try to find it again, we might discover faults and blemishes memory has been kind enough to erase.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt

“Never forget that everything you have, even the breath in your body, comes from the Almighty One, so be grateful for all you are given.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Bathsheba: Reluctant Beauty

“Indeed, a great life can come from small beginnings.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra

“for lamentation, and thirty for abstaining from laundered garments and from cutting the hair. The sages say that one should not grieve too much for the dead, and whoever grieves excessively is really grieving for someone else.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra

“Did Christ not die for the entire world?” Paul asked. “For the cruel master as well as for the innocent child?”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Paul, Apostle of Christ:

“Adonai does not whisper obscurities, Samson. He would not have told the people of Israel to seek Him if he could not be found. What He said, He will do, both for you and for the”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“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”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra

“protect, like soldiers; and those who govern. He says the producers align with the appetite of man, the protectors with the spirit of man, and those who govern with the reason of man.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra

“The widow seemed to consider everything, good and bad, as part of Adonai’s will.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“will lift up my eyes to the mountains,” I began, “from where does my help come? My help comes from Adonai, Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip. Your Keeper will not slumber.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Egypt's Sister: A Novel of Cleopatra

“Q. Did I understand correctly—you have Jesus being crucified on a Thursday night instead of Good Friday? A. Yes. I read an excellent answer for what has been called “The Passover problem,” which details the Jewish feasts that coincided with the death of Christ. If Jesus died on Nisan 14, Thursday afternoon, Passover day, he died at the very hour the Passover lambs were being killed at the Temple. The people ate the Passover meal after sundown, on Nisan 15, which was a special Sabbath because it was the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The next day, Nisan 16, was a Saturday, a “regular” Sabbath, and the next day, Nisan 17, was the day after the regular Sabbath during Pesach—the Feast of Firstfruits. If we follow this pattern, Jesus fulfills his own words found in Matthew 12:40: “For just as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.” If Jesus died on a Friday night and rose on Sunday, he was only in the heart of the earth for two nights, not three. This is by no means a new idea; it has been around for years. But people are so accustomed to the traditional Easter story that they are surprised to realize that crucifixion on a Friday doesn’t fulfill Jesus’s prophecy.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Daughter of Cana

“of paved highways and international sailing routes. 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. 3:15). For God never sleeps, and though He may not communicate as we expect Him to, He can always speak to a receptive heart.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra

“And a happy man had no reason to fight.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Judah's Wife

“I was Adonai’s instrument, His Nazarite, His son, and in Him I placed my trust. I would tell Delilah as much . . . if Adonai allowed me to see her again.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“But do you remember when the army of Israel tried to throw off the Philistine yoke in the latter days of Eli the high priest?” “I’d hardly count that a victory. Our people were slaughtered and the Ark of the Covenant stolen.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“The Torah has set limits for every stage of grief: three days for weeping, seven”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Jerusalem's Queen: A Novel of Salome Alexandra