Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes about Loyalty

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Loyalty, Religious, Tolerance

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.242, Macmillan

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

Loyalty, Commitment, Religion

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.12, Macmillan

Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Loyalty, Heart, Men

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Farrar, Straus and Giroux