I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.

Wiesel distinguishes disbelief from spiritual struggle. The quote frames anger, protest, and even accusation toward God not as abandonment of faith but as a form of relationship—one intense enough to permit argument. In Jewish theological tradition, lament and disputation (as in Job or the Psalms) can be modes of fidelity rather than rebellion. Coming from a Holocaust survivor who wrote often about the “eclipse” of God at Auschwitz, the statement suggests that faith after catastrophe may persist in paradox: closeness can be experienced through confrontation, and moral outrage can coexist with continued address to the divine.