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“If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes clasped in the mothers' arms. They were ordered to kill women, and to pierce, with the sword of war, the unborn child. 'Our heavenly Father' commanded the Hebrews to kill the men and women, the fathers, sons and brothers, but to preserve the girls alive. Why were not the maidens also killed? Why were they spared? Read the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, and you will find that the maidens were given to the soldiers and the priests. Is there, in all the history of war, a more infamous thing than this? Is it possible that God permitted the violets of modesty, that grow and shed their perfume in the maiden's heart, to be trampled beneath the brutal feet of lust? If this was the order of God, what, under the same circumstances, would have been the command of a devil? When, in this age of the world, a woman, a wife, a mother, reads this record, she should, with scorn and loathing, throw the book away. A general, who now should make such an order, giving over to massacre and rapine a conquered people, would be held in execration by the whole civilized world. Yet, if the bible be true, the supreme and infinite God was once a savage.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses

“Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;
While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“Brethren, take note of this, as long as the LORD disciplines you, you are on a safer side. If you are not disciplined by the LORD, be afraid! The only possibility is that the LORD would have left you to command your own ship which is ultimately going to wreck. (Hebrews 12: 5 to 11)”
― Royal Raj S

“The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.”
― Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought

“In the search for an author [of Hebrews] we are virtually stumbling over Priscilla. No longer is it feasible to pretend she isn't there.”
― Ruth Hoppin

“The Hebrews come into the bread eaters' land with no bread of their own. It's famine, and Jacob's sons travel to Egypt in hopes of finding something to save their families. They find not only grain but forgiveness. Joseph is there, whom God takes from them so he can later deliver them. They find a new home. And they, too, find the miracle of yeast.
Surely the descendants of Abraham bake their grains, mixing flour and oil and kneading it to dough. But this is 'uggah'- a flat cake baked on hot stones or in the ashes, the same given to the Lord by Abraham when he visits and pronounces Isaac's birth. Nomads have no time for fermentation, for waiting for dough to ripen. They have enough to carry from place to place. And they have no ovens, probably have never conceived of such a thing. Again, too heavy to move.
So what must it have been like for them to see these risen loaves come from strange Egyptian baking containers? It becomes part of them, the first thing they cry out for in the wilderness, not any bread but that of those who enslaved them. The Hebrews have freedom. Instead, they want food, their bellies filled with the earthly comfort they know. And God, the heavenly Comforter, sends bread of a different kind.
'What is it?'
They call it 'manna'. And it's given 'to' the wandering children of Israel, but not only 'for' them. For us. For all who brush away the veil and will one day lay eyes on the true manna, a child they do not yet know will be born in Beth-lehem, the house of bread.”
― Christa Parrish, Stones For Bread

“Lord Jesus Christ is,

Better than the angels (Hebrews 1: 4), Better than the priests (Hebrews 7: 7), who provides a Better hope (Hebrews 7: 19), besides being the guarantor of a Better Covenant (Hebrews 7: 22). He is also the Better mediator (Hebrews 8: 6) established on Better promises (Hebrews 8: 6). Above all, He is the Better sacrifice (Hebrews 9: 23) who has promised His children a Better possession (Hebrews 10: 34) in a
Better country (Hebrews 11: 16) which can be inherited through a Better resurrection (Hebrews 11: 35) and it is the Better thing (Hebrews 11: 40). All of this has been made possible by His own Blood that speaks Better words (Hebrews 12: 24) than the blood of Abel.”
― Royal Raj S

“Lord Jesus Christ is,

· Better than the angels (Hebrews 1: 4),
· Better than the priests (Hebrews 7: 7), who provides a
· Better hope (Hebrews 7: 19), besides being the guarantor of a
· Better covenant (Hebrews 7: 22). He is also the
· Better mediator (Hebrews 8: 6) established on
· Better promises (Hebrews 8: 6). Above all, He is the
· Better sacrifice (Hebrews 9: 23) who has promised His children a
· Better possession (Hebrews 10: 34) in a
· Better country (Hebrews 11: 16) which can be inherited through a
· Better resurrection (Hebrews 11: 35) and it is the
· Better thing (Hebrews 11: 40). All of this has been made possible by His own Blood that speaks
· Better words (Hebrews 12: 24) than the blood of Abel.

Repent and run to JESUS CHRIST who is BETTER than EVERYTHING ELSE you can barely imagine, lest you be condemned eternally!”
― Royal Raj S