Harold Kushner - God Quotes

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Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

Harold Kushner

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Harold Kushner

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 Kushner

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

Harold Kushner

The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.

Harold Kushner

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

Harold Kushner