What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another. Harold S. Kushner More Quotes by Harold S. Kushner More Quotes From 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 ocean struggle beach God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. Harold S. Kushner causes tragedy people Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. Harold S. Kushner main-course dessert fun You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny. Harold S. Kushner destiny purpose soul Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human. Harold S. Kushner good-things humans people 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 pain forever life Being kind to others is a way of being good to yourself. Harold S. Kushner be-kind charity way 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 validated as people who matter. Harold S. Kushner taken feelings people Why bad things happen to good people Harold S. Kushner erosion everything-happens-for-a-reason people 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 awe-and-wonder failing children The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him. Harold S. Kushner upset hurt believe . . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation. Harold S. Kushner partners creation labor We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves. Harold S. Kushner setting settings If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other. Harold S. Kushner care couple want 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 that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people. Harold S. Kushner quality teamwork people Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all. Harold S. Kushner team baseball winning Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children. Harold S. Kushner growing-up parent children 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 can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die. Harold S. Kushner frustrated important god Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them. Harold S. Kushner miracle body law Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others. Harold S. Kushner helping-others joy jobs
