WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT WIESEL TAUGHT US ABOUT JUSTICE AND THE EVIL OF INDIFFERENCE.

As a tribute I am posting some of his favorite statements. I pray they will inspire you to live a life of compassion.

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel

“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.” ― Elie Wiesel

“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.” ― Elie Wiesel

“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them” ― Elie Wiesel

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.” ― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night/Dawn/The Accident

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.” ― Elie Wiesel

“Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.” ― Elie Wiesel

“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.” ― Elie Wiesel, The Judges

“Love makes everything complicated.” ― Elie Wiesel

“No human being is illegal.” ― Elie Wiesel

*One of mt very favorites quotes from Wiesel because it opens my mind to the paradoxical pain of the heart of God.

“God is God BECAUSE he remembers.” ― Elie Wiesel

“I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!” ― Elie Wiesel

LET GOD LOVE YOU FIRST, Friend, then LEAD LIFE from within!

Pastor Harold