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One Quotes by Harold S. Kushner
- What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
- We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to…
- I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
- It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set…
- We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
- There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.
- 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.…
- When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to pose…
- 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 have…
- It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives…
- One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
- One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be…
- One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
- The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is a difference between eating a hamburger and…
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