“Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration. Forgiveness means cleansing your soul of the bitterness of ‘what might have been,’ ‘what should have been,’ and ‘what didn’t have to happen.’… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that… — 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
