Harold S. Kushner Quotes - Page 4

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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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• . . .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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• There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

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  Moving, Thinking, Soul

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• That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

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  People, Perfection, May

  Harold S. Kushner (2003). “Living a Life that Matters”, p.124, Anchor

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• Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

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  Life, Reality, May

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

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  Self, Awareness, Ends

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• If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part of our being, then after a burst of creativity, we need to replenish our souls.

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  Creativity, Soul, Needs

  Harold S. Kushner (2003). “The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm”, p.65, Anchor

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• Why bad things happen to good people

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  Erosion, Everything Happens For A Reason, People

  When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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• We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

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  Care

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “Living a Life that Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between Conscience and Success”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

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  Settings, Setting

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• Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

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  Spiritual, Honesty, Healthy

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

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  Law, Miracle, Body

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

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  Kindness, Writing, Miracle

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• We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

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  Dying, Scare

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• Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

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  Fun, Dessert, Main Course

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

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  Jobs, Helping Others, Joy

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• Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

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  Integrity, Age, Strive

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• There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

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  People, Holiness, Share

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

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  God, Believe, Moral

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• 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.

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  Order, People, Giving

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• History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

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  Book, Winning, People

  Harold S. Kushner (2006). “Overcoming Life's Disappointments”, p.4, Anchor

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• I wish i spent more time at the office.

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  Office, Wish, More Time

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

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  Home, School, Voice

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