black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
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
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
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
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
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
Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Aeon Cherished Cosmic Shread Tapestry Theory
A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Ability God Greatness Hold Man Prophet Thought
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
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
Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Beyond End Itself Life Meaningful Serving Someone Unless Value
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Beginning Happiness Life Living Lying Understanding Wonder

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes