Religion Quotes by Elie Wiesel

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

— Elie Wiesel

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

— Elie Wiesel

“most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don’t know where else to find them.”

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I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.

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The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history.

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My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

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My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.

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The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.

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Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

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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…

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One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

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We're both [with Elie Wiesel] a long way from the position of the so-called Biblical minimalists. Some of them see no history…

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[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment -…

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I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I…

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It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but…

— Elie Wiesel

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt…

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Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever…

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It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and…

— Elie Wiesel

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be…

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I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so…

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“In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous. We believed in God, trusted in man,…

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The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism…

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[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether…

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In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had…

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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

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There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

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[The Bible] is been my passion almost from my youth.

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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

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Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

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Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

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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…

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When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

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I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God…

— Elie Wiesel

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of…

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Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these…

— Elie Wiesel