Harold S. Kushner Quotes - Page 3

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• Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

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  Healing, Ignorance, Imperfection

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• None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

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  Love, People, Giving

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• Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.

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  Love Is, Lines, Littles

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• Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

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  Biblical, Tests, Revealing

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• God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

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  People, Tragedy, Causes

  Harold S. Kushner (2007). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”, p.188, Anchor

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• When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.

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  Alternatives, Dilemma

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• Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.

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  People, Good Things, Humans

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• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

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  Thank You, Karma, Kindness

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• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

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  Fear, Adventure, Sleep

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.

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  Sex, Children, Ideas

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• One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

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  Health, Sick, Feelings

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• Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?

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  Beach, Ocean, Struggle

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• You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.

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  Destiny, Soul, Purpose

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• God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.

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  Thinking, Capable

  Harold S. Kushner (2006). “Overcoming Life's Disappointments”, p.15, Anchor

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• One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

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  Men, People, Evil

  Harold S. Kushner (2003). “Living a Life that Matters”, p.138, Anchor

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• If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.

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  Couple, Care, Want

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• Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

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  Life, Pain, Forever

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• We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

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  Children, Awe And Wonder, Failing

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• Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

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  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• No good deed ever goes wasted.

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  Deeds, Good Deeds

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• Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

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  Teamwork, People, Quality

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

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  Feelings, Guilt, Deeds

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• 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.

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  God, Frustrated, Important

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• It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

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  Fighting, Enemy, Mountain

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• . . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

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  Creation, Partners, Labor

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