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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.

Elie Wiesel

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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Future Myself Past
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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Difference Human Suffering
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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God Mystery Oneself Religious Return Shaking
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
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Dust Hope Man
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
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Cherish Definition Gratitude Happiness Humanity Myself
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
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Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
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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Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
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Hate Health Persistence Religious
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
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Betrayal Decision Life Myself Remember Story Survive
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.
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Allow Difference Hate Love Power
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
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Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Even in darkness it is possible to create light.
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Creation Darkness Light Possible

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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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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