Posters
Wallpaper

black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Related Topics

Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting
Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Count Deed Everything Little Responsibility Saving Success
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Ability Awe Conceit Conseil Diminish Forfeit Market Place Revere Sense Universe
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Done Essence Good Prize Reward Sake Virtue
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer New Query Question Rise
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Encouragement God Love Man Person Religious Suffer Time
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
We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Celebrate Meaning Sabbath Six Space Time Trying Tyranny Week
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

Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
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
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Decay Eternal Failing Grandeur Spiritual Time
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
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

Debate Explanation God Order Origin Second Thought Universal
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
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
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
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
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
Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Autobiography Course Future Life Unpredictable Writing
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled

Copyright - 2021 Minimalist Quotes