black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Evil Good Indifference Opposite

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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
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
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
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 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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacity Call Grandeur Hour Moral Spiritual
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Appreciation Man Manipulation Primary Relate Surround Two Use
By the word of God the world was created.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Created God Self Trust Word
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious
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 be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual
There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Absurdm Incessant Against Glorification Universal Vulgar Wage
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
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Endlessly Exclusive Given Hour Moment Two Unique Years
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
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
The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Filling Grandeur Heart Patience Pregnant Try Wish World
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes