Famous Quotes

"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."

Elie Wiesel on Faith

More quotes about Faith

• "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

  Mother Teresa on Faith

• "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Faith

• "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Faith

• "All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

  Martin Luther on Faith

• "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Faith

More quotes by Elie Wiesel

• "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems."

• "Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone."

• "I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

• "I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory."

• "It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed."