Harold Kushner Quotes

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

There's a part of you - the born-again part, your spirit - that's dead to sin. That's why it bothers you now when you sin. The 'wilderness' part of you - your soul - is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.

You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

The body has to be looked after: one has to be very caring about the body and very loving to the body. And then, its very spontaneity purifies it, makes it holy.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls, so it is to this we must look to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.

There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.

And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake yourself into something you're not. Just try making the best of what God made. The sacred art and craft of nurturing our souls and the souls of those we love is Simple Abundance soulcraft. Begin today by turning on the Light.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.