Interviews Quotes by Harold S. Kushner

When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to…

— Harold S. Kushner

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.

— Harold S. Kushner

But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to…

— Harold S. Kushner

Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team…

— Harold S. Kushner

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…

— Harold S. Kushner

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love…

— Harold S. Kushner

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

— Harold S. Kushner

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

— Harold S. Kushner

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And…

— Harold S. Kushner

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

— Harold S. Kushner

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

— Harold S. Kushner

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I…

— Harold S. Kushner