{"id":80597,"date":"2022-10-12T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=80597"},"modified":"2022-10-13T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T17:45:37","slug":"when-helping-hurts-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/when-helping-hurts-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"When Helping Hurts: Quotes That Will Open Your Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are some <em>When Helping Hurts<\/em> quotes? How can these quotes help you understand the book&#8217;s message?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When Helping Hurts <\/em>encourages Christians to take an honest look at the way they approach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/poverty-alleviation-programs\/\">poverty alleviation<\/a> to determine whether their efforts are causing more harm than good. The authors explain how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/milton-friedman-poverty\/\">poverty relief<\/a> efforts can reinforce the recipients\u2019 sense of powerlessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at a few quotes from the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-helping-hurts-quotes-with-explanations\"><em>When Helping Hurts<\/em>: Quotes With Explanations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the 1980s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/short-term-mission-trips\/\">short-term mission trips<\/a> have become a popular form of ministry for many evangelical Christian churches throughout North America. The purpose of these missions is ostensibly to spread the gospel and help the poor, particularly in developing nations. But Christian economic development experts Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert express concern that many of these missions actually do more harm than good because the people who organize them misunderstand the true nature and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-the-main-causes-of-poverty\/\">causes of poverty<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the most important <em>When Helping Hurts <\/em>quotes that highlight the authors&#8217; argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cUntil we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally reduce poor people to objects that I use to fulfill my own need to accomplish something. I am not okay, and you are not okay. But Jesus can fix us both.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Corbett and Fikkert, <strong>when people fail to understand the psychological nature of poverty and its spiritual roots, it makes their poverty alleviation efforts counterproductive<\/strong>. This is because, if we assume poverty is just a lack of material resources, the obvious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/solutions-to-poverty-in-the-united-states\/\">solution to poverty<\/a> seems to be to give poor people more resources. But stepping in and giving people things they can\u2019t get for themselves or doing things for them that they can\u2019t do for themselves highlights and reinforces their sense of powerlessness, actually making their poverty worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors also warn that all too often, when we take this approach of giving things to people or doing things for them, we do it with an attitude of superiority: We think we can save them from poverty by taking charge of their lives, telling them what to do, and doing it for them when they don\u2019t immediately comply. We may not intend to make them feel inferior, but our sense of superiority comes across in our actions. Again, this tends to reinforce their sense of shame and powerlessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhile poor people mention having a lack of material things, they tend to describe their condition in far more psychological and social terms than our North American audiences. Poor people typically talk in terms of shame, inferiority, powerlessness, humiliation, fear, hopelessness, depression, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/social-alienation\/\">social isolation<\/a>, and voicelessness. North American audiences tend to emphasize a lack of material things such as food, money, clean water, medicine, housing, etc.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Corbett and Fikkert trace the root cause of poverty even deeper, arguing that <strong>the psychological state of poverty is caused by the broken relationships that resulted from the Fall of Man<\/strong>, as recorded in the Bible. They argue that when the first humans fell into sin, it damaged their relationships with God, each other, the rest of creation, and even with themselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When these relationships were broken, people were no longer able to fulfill their God-given role as masters of God\u2019s creation, managing earth\u2019s resources in a way that would allow them to support themselves, benefit society, and glorify God. Because we fail to live up to the role that we were created for, we experience the psychological state of poverty: feelings of shame and powerlessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corbett and Fikkert note that since everyone suffers the effects of the Fall, everyone is \u201cpoor\u201d in a spiritual sense. Nevertheless, they stress that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/material-poverty\/\">material poverty<\/a> is particularly difficult to get out of because of a vicious cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;If we treat only the symptoms or if we misdiagnose the underlying problem, we will not improve their situation, and we might actually make their lives worse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Corbett and Fikkert advise that it\u2019s important to consider which of the three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/types-of-aid\/\">types of aid<\/a> the community you\u2019re trying to help needs and to provide the right type of aid. 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