When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Doubt is an inherent aspect of faith and belief in religion, and even the greatest religious thinkers experienced uncertainty.
The quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer highlights the notion that doubt is not only common but essential in the realm of religion. It suggests that questioning and skepticism are integral to the development of belief systems, as even the most revered religious thinkers grappled with uncertainties, thereby enriching their understanding and faith.
Themes
DoubtFaithReligionBeliefUncertaintyThinkers
In practice
Example use cases
In a sermon about faith, one might quote this to emphasize that doubt is a natural part of the spiritual journey.
More from Isaac Bashevis Singer
All quotes βThere will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
Similar quotes
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
Nathaniel HawthorneRead
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
Frederick BuechnerRead
A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
RajneeshRead
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
SarahaRead
I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.
Claudette ColvinRead
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
Siri HustvedtRead