Quotes from Harold S. Kushner
Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.
- Harold S. Kushner
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
- Harold S. Kushner
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
- Harold S. Kushner
We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
- Harold S. Kushner
Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?
- Harold S. Kushner
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
- 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 can make it.
- Harold S. Kushner
Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.
- Harold S. Kushner
We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
- Harold S. Kushner
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
- Harold S. Kushner
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
- Harold S. Kushner
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
- Harold S. Kushner