“Look. I know what I believe. It’s in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don’t know everything, we must accept that since we don’t know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”  

-Albert Lewis

'Have A Little Faith'  page 161

We is One word

…One, as in the singular God. One, as in the Lord’s creation, Adam.

‘Ask yourself, “Why did God create but one man?”’ the Reb said wagging his finger. ‘Why, if he meant for there to be faiths bickering with each other, didn’t he create that from the start? He created trees, right? Not one tree, countless trees.  Why not the same with man?

Because we are all from that one man – and all from that one God. That’s the message.’

‘Then why,’ I asked, ‘is the world so fractured?’

‘Well, you can look at it this way. Would you want the world to all look alike? No. The genius of life is its variety.

Even in our own faith, we have questions and answers, interpretations, debates. In Christianity, in Catholicism, in other faiths, the same thing –debates, interpretations. That is the beauty. It’s like being a musician. If you found the note, and you kept hitting that note all the time, you would go nuts. It’s the blending of the different notes that makes the music.’

‘The music of what?’

‘Of believing in something bigger than yourself.’

‘But what if someone from another faith won’t recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it?’

‘That is not faith. That is hate.’ He sighed. ‘And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens.’             

-Have A Little Faith, page 160     

For us, for you, for everyone

 ‘My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right  with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have.’ We can sleep in a storm. “And when it’s time, our good-byes will be complete.’ 

-'Have A Little Faith' by Mitch Albom, page 93

Wants

“ ‘… Having more does not keep you from wanting more. 

And if you always want more – to be richer, more beautiful, more well known – you are missing the bigger picture 

…

and happiness will not come.”

……

… “When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right?”

“Why? 

Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, ‘The whole world is mine.’ ”

“But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. 

Why? 

Because he has learned the lesson.”

‘What lesson?’ I asked.

He scratched open his empty fingers.

“We can take nothing with us.” 

-Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom, page 101