Elie Wiesel Quotes

I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.

We got to pray just to make it today.

Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays. My grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength.

I used to hate religion, I loathed it in my angry days.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

My father was very outwardly religious.

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

No praying, it spoils business.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.