black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Become Company Ineffable Part Word
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Faith Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
We worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
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
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amass Face Goal Healing Higher Moment Scared Spiritual Wealth
Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Experiment Friendship Mentality Puzzle Syllogistic
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
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
We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Absurdities Disappointment Frustration Redeem Share World
Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
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
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
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
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Heart heavy Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Acceptance Appreciate Appreciation High Seem Value
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Church God Greater Seem Separation State
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes