Elie Wiesel Quotes

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

God's 'failures' are really man's failures.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

Man thinks, God directs.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

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

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I am responsible only to God and history.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.