black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Debate Explanation God Order Origin Second Thought Universal

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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
When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Analysis Dignity Intuition Realization Simple Stand
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
It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Cry Remain Silence Sometimes Tell Unbroken Wish
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Admired Bullying Clever Kind Kindness Old People Young
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
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
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
It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Called Creation Day Eternal Mystery Result Shared Time
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Control Giving Goal Own Realm Share Space Time
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
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

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes