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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

Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
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Children Family Guilty Kill
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
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Education Learning Substitute Word
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
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
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 Mission Pain People Religion Suffering
Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.
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Attitude Judgement Nation Refugee
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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Election God Official Person Religious
In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.
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Fly Give Up Ground Order Stand Yourself
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
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Dreams Future Hope Live Man Reflection
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Human Man Suffering Woman
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
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
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Better Country Inspirational Myself Start World
My faith is a wounded faith, but it’s not without faith. My life is not without faith.
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Faith Life Myself Religious Wound
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
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Accountability Enough Human Leaving Problem
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
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Himself Story Survive
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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Desire Ideas Memories People Shadow Surround Thinking Truth

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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