Stories Quotes by Elie Wiesel

“God made man because He loves stories.”

— Elie Wiesel

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

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

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I believe in the story [ of Adam and Eve]. For me, it's a story.

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People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

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There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

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Some stories are true that never happened.

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We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

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This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

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Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

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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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The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.

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As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has…

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Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

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The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure…

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All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to…

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If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away?…

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Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe…

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I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while…

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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…

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What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use…

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We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had…

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Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but…

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I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So…

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But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come…

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If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of…

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