Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
ELIE WIESELI 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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We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn’t divorce God, but I’m quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it’s a wounded faith.
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Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering… The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.
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Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
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In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
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No human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?
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