black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Animate Being Divine Margin Mystery Notice Praying Sense Wonder
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
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
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Business Doubt Inspirational Inspiring Knowledge Wonder
Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Calm Discipline Mindset Positive Respect Root Self Vibe
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
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
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
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single
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
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Art Build Dream Hard Work Life Motivate Success Work
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Experience Pray Praying World
Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Church Deal God Great Problem Provoking Sometimes Worry
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
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual
Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Glory Humankind Power Presence Will
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Ask Enrapture Marvelous Number Reason Thing
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
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
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
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