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Them Quotes by Harold S. Kushner
- At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about me and it…
- A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems…
- We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.
- Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities…
- 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…
- Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
- The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on…
- Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
- People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.
- 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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