black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Faith Hard Work Job Religious Result Shaken Success

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Other Passion Strength Suffer Time
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
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
Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Experiment Friendship Mentality Puzzle Syllogistic
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Gain Happiness Labor Love Misery
Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Human Being Involve Living Responsible Role Understanding World
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Activities Affair Commitment Impersonal Institutional Loyalty Religion Religious
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Art Live Pray Prayer Specialized Training

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes