I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Quote by Elie Wiesel
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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Elie Wiesel Quotes
- Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
- Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
- Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
- It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
- I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
- What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
- No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
- After all, God is God because he remembers.
- Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
- Some stories are true that never happened.
Best Quotes
- Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
- I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
- My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.