black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Category Higher Maintaining Power

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Contempt Far Kingdom Man Peril Plain Retain Share Task War
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Celebrate Meaning Sabbath Six Space Time Trying Tyranny Week
That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness
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
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Faith Hard Work Job Religious Result Shaken Success
Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Beyond End Itself Life Meaningful Serving Someone Unless Value
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazed Everything Life Phenomenal

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes