Elie Wiesel Quotes

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.