This is what itmeans to create: not to make something out of nothing, but to make order out of chaos. A creative scientist or historian does not makeup facts but orders facts; he sees connections between them rather than seeing them as random data. A creative writer does notmake up new words but arranges familiar words in patterns which say something fresh to us. Harold S. Kushner
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving...
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In a time of destruction, create something.
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Maxine Hong Kingston
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
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Roy T. Bennett
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Oscar Wilde
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By Harold S. Kushner
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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...
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are
If a human artist or employer made children suffer so that something immensely impressive or valuable could come to pass, wewould put him in prison. Why then should we excuse God for causing such undeserved pain, no matter how wonderful the ultimateresult may be?
Pain is the price we pay for being alive. Dead cells–our hair, our fingernails–can’t feel pain; they cannot feel anything. When weunderstand that, our question will change from, “Why do we have to feel pain?” to “What do we do with our pain so that...
