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.
ELIE WIESELWe 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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Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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Every moment is a new beginning.
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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
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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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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
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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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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
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Think higher, feel deeper.
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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
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Bite your lips, little brother…Don’t cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now…Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
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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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