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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Harold S. Kushner

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary,…

— Harold S. Kushner

When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in…

— Harold S. Kushner

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

— Harold S. Kushner

Why bad things happen to good people

— Harold S. Kushner

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

— Harold S. Kushner

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in…

— Harold S. Kushner

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

— Harold S. Kushner

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

— Harold S. Kushner

The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories,…

— Harold S. Kushner

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

— Harold S. Kushner

“(Many religions, from Judaism to Zoroastrianism, use light and fire as symbols for the presence of God, perhaps because light, like God,…

— Harold S. Kushner

God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply…

— Harold S. Kushner

God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to…

— Harold S. Kushner