Complexity Levels
The man who betrays Him day after day, drunk with vanity, resentment, or reckless ambition, lives in a ghostly mist of mis-givings. Having ruined love with greed, he is still wondering about the lack of tenderness in his own life. His soul contains a hiding-place for an escaping conscience. He has torn his ties to God into shreds of shrieking dread, and his mind remains dull and callous. Spoiler of his own lot, he walks the earth a skeleton of a soul, raving about missed delight.
--Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man’s Quest for God: Studies in Prayer and Symbolism
Complexity Levels
The man who betrays Him day after day, drunk with vanity, resentment, or reckless ambition, lives in a ghostly mist of mis-givings. Having ruined love with greed, he is still wondering about the lack of tenderness in his own life. His soul contains a hiding-place for an escaping conscience. He has torn his ties to God into shreds of shrieking dread, and his mind remains dull and callous. Spoiler of his own lot, he walks the earth a skeleton of a soul, raving about missed delight.
--Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man’s Quest for God: Studies in Prayer and Symbolism