Quotes from Harold S. Kushner

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.

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.

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.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

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.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

Why bad things happen to good people

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

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.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

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.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

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.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

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?

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.