Elie Wiesel Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, World, Strange

  Source: www.npr.org

• Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Men, People

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.54, Macmillan

• I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Father, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Blessed, Biblical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Prayer, Tears, Roles

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