Harold S. Kushner Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Harold S. Kushner
Harold S. Kushner Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared ... The longer we live, the more life we possess.
We are here to finish God's labors ... so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.
We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.
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.
Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.
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.
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.
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office
God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctor's job. God's job is to make sick people brave.
Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.
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.
We not only have today; we have all the yesterdays we are capable of remembering and all the tomorrows we can envision.
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.
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
For many of us, we will come to the point where death will be the only healer for the pain which our lives will have come to contain.
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in.
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy ... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.