black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Leg Lip March Montgomery Prayer Selma Song Walking
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Affecting Deriving Exploiting Living World
Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will 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
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
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
The awe of God is wisdom.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Awe Destiny Future God Good Luck Rule Wisdom
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
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
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Earth Embracing Greatest Man Miracle Understand
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
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Mean Real Voice
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deathblow Episode Health Injurious Injustice Prophets Welfare
It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Feeling Good Gratefulness Soul
Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Expediency Fall Man Motivation Naturally Right Supreme
Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Glory Humankind Power Presence Will
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dangerous Freedom Human Obligation Prerogative Regard
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Beginning Happiness Life Living Lying Understanding Wonder
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dimension Essential Existence Expediency Men Refuted Reign Supremacy Time
The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Center Function Hub Prayer Revolving Spoke Wheel

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes