black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazed Beginning Fact Wisdom
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
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
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Affording Evil Indifference Justification Silent Society
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
New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Absurdity Amen Author Defiance Vocation
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
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Argument Atheist Attained Debate God Order Reality Session Understanding
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
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
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Maturity Retire Sudden Tranquility Wisdom
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes