The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Elie WieselRead
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a complex relationship between faith and doubt.
Elie Wiesel reflects on his deep religious beliefs and the anguish he faced during moments of questioning God's silence. His statement reveals that questioning faith does not equate to losing it; instead, it highlights the struggle and coexistence of faith and doubt in the human experience.
Themes
FaithDoubtReligionQuestioningSilence
In practice
Example use cases
During a sermon, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of questioning one's beliefs.
More from Elie Wiesel
All quotes →With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.
Elie WieselRead
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
Elie WieselRead
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.
Elie WieselRead
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
Elie WieselRead
My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes… I must identify with whatever Israel does – even with her errors.
Elie WieselRead
Similar quotes
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
Eartha KittRead
The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
T. H. WhiteRead
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
Henri BergsonRead
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiRead
The law of Karma is the law of causation.
Swami VivekanandaRead
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.
Friedrich August Von HayekRead