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 More Quotes by Harold S. Kushner More Quotes From Harold S. Kushner When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative. Harold S. Kushner dilemmaalternatives I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave. Harold S. Kushner doctorsgodjobs We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess. Harold S. Kushner overcomingagepeople We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus. Harold S. Kushner prayergodsorry There is no right way to do a wrong thing. Harold S. Kushner right-waywrong-thingsway 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 them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts. Harold S. Kushner responsibilitynumbersbelieve 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 karmakindnessthank-you Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness. Harold S. Kushner caringrunninghappiness God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different. Harold S. Kushner differentmirrorsfaith Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party. Harold S. Kushner favorsparty 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 contributioncircumstancesgiving The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in. Harold S. Kushner decisions-we-makechoicesadd None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in. Harold S. Kushner lovegivingpeople I'm not perfect, ... But i'm enough Harold S. Kushner im-not-perfectenoughperfect We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess. Harold S. Kushner old-ageinspirational-lifeage Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty. Harold S. Kushner perspectiveinspiringbeauty I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical. Harold S. Kushner essencegrievingpeople I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal. Harold S. Kushner be-kindgoalpeople Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around. Harold S. Kushner unlimited-lovegodbelieve 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 perseverancedeterminationwish
