black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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
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
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
There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Agony Answer Bear Blasphemy Commit Country Enable Holocaust State Supreme
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
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
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Activities Affair Commitment Impersonal Institutional Loyalty Religion Religious
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
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Business Doubt Inspirational Inspiring Knowledge Wonder
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
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Experience Pray Praying World
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
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Arrogance Betray Cowardice Follow Intelligence Rejection Worship
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes