Delilah Quotes

“He called you, He fashioned you, and He will use you. Obey the nudging of His Spirit,”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“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.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“Adonai, forgive me. “He has,” Rei assured me.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“Even before birth,” Rei whispered, “you belonged to Him. You were given life for His purposes, you were dedicated to Him and only one thing was required of you—faithfulness. And you were faithful until the moment you placed your love for a woman over your love for God.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“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

“I might have been content to remain in Delilah’s house forever, hiding from the Philistines and from my responsibility. I had been distracted from my task, and for that sin I begged forgiveness from Adonai. I had let a woman interfere with my sacred covenant with Adonai.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“Know your enemy,” my mother once told me. “Know them so you can be prepared to survive them.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“you get when you squeeze a lemon?” I blinked, surprised by the riddle’s simplicity. “Lemon juice.” “I’m afraid not.” Rei stood. “When you squeeze a lemon, you get whatever is inside. So make sure she loves you as much as you love her.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“If woman is man’s greatest help, she is also his greatest danger.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“An eye for beautiful things,” I finished. “Surely there’s nothing wrong with appreciating God’s glorious creations.” “Not as long as those glorious creations are yours to appreciate,” Rei countered. “You should be more careful. Some women are like suckerfish. If you catch one, there are sure to be ugly things attached.”
― 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

“prophet in Shiloh.” The reminder that other men also shared the burden of leadership alleviated some of my distress. For years I had imagined myself alone in my task, but if Adonai was also using another man with long plaited hair, maybe the responsibility wasn’t as heavy as I feared.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“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

“You may not see the end of the occupation, but you can trust that freedom for Israel is part of the Lord’s plan.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“Adonai never wounds His people without also making preparation for their healing.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“But surely Adonai, creator of everything good, would create nothing unless it had a reason for being.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“righteousness, they will repent and return to the Lord.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“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”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“But Adonai’s ways are marvelous and unexpected.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“should not enslave another. Slavery is an awful business.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“will bless us once again. Then we will rehearse the righteous acts of Adonai and thank Him for His mercy.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“tragedies reported to us, the widow maintained her faith in Adonai, declaring that her people were bound to suffer for their disloyalty to God. “Bnei-Yisrael has done what is evil in Adonai’s eyes,” she would say, “and He has handed us over to our enemies. When we repent and turn to the Lord our God, He”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“If Adonai means for you to gain victory over the man who wronged you, He will arrange it . . . when the time is”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

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

“Adonai, for looking on me with such mercy. May the earth and everyone on it praise your name for your goodness and love.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“empowered by the Ruach Adonai.” “What?” “The Holy Spirit of HaShem.” A small smile brightened her face. “As one of our judges, Samson is a remarkable man. But when the Ruach Adonai overpowers him, he is a force from God.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“or as swift as men, but did we not have the same right to live freely and make choices?”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“We women might not be as strong”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“but a man in love is as restless as a lion and as impatient as a puppy.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty

“But you are mine no longer. You are a man, with a man’s concerns, and”
― Angela Elwell Hunt, Delilah: Treacherous Beauty