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.
ELIE WIESELFor nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
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In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
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Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.
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I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else’s suffering.
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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
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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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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
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I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.
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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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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
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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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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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Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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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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