black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Activities Affair Commitment Impersonal Institutional Loyalty Religion Religious

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
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
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
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
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence
Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
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
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
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Applauding Bible Civilization Complacency Emotion Knives Positive Quote Slashing Voice

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes