black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Ask Enrapture Marvelous Number Reason Thing
It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Feeling Good Gratefulness Soul
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Abyss Anchor Deeper Despair Heart Infinite Man Meaning Reach
It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Cry Remain Silence Sometimes Tell Unbroken Wish
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Air Compassion Everywhere Father God Noble People Sentiment
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Church God Greater Seem Separation State
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Asking Closer God Question Thinking
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes