black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
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
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Category Higher Maintaining Power
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Evil Good Indifference Opposite
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
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
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
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
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
God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Debate Explanation God Order Origin Second Thought Universal
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Arrogance Betray Cowardice Follow Intelligence Rejection Worship
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Done Essence Good Prize Reward Sake Virtue
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Ability Inspirational Life Motivational Oneself Respect Self Sense
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
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
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
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
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
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Cease Evil Individual Morning Sunshine
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

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes