Rabbi Harold Kushner Quotes

"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 eating a bowl of cereal. For one of them, a living creature had to be killed. Should we ever become so casual about the eating of meat that we lose sight of that distinction, a part of our humanity will have shriveled and died."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner in Judaism quotes.

"A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner

"We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough."
-Rabbi Harold 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."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner

"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner

"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner

"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."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner

"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner