Harold S. Kushner Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

• We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Sorry, Prayer

• I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Jobs, Doctors

• Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Prayer, Matter

• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Frustrated, Important

• I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Believe, Moral

• Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Believe, Unlimited Love

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