Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• 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

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love, Encouragement, Religious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.289, Macmillan

• The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Religion, Tragedy, Isolation

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