We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives.… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
