Elie Wiesel Quotes About Abraham

Quotes about: Abraham

• Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh]

  Elie Wiesel

  Angel, Son, Boys

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical.

  Elie Wiesel

  Determination, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

  Elie Wiesel

  Trying, Jewish Faith, Defining Moments

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

  Elie Wiesel

  White, People, Doubt

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Sacrifice, Stories, Tradition

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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