Harold S. Kushner Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

• The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Giving, Circumstances, Contribution

• 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.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Love, People, Giving

• People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Giving, Down And

• God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Powerful, Yield, Light

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

• When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find a way to "give back" to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Order, People, Giving

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