Harold Kushner Quotes

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.

What does a mirror look at?

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

If you comprehend, it is not God.

Surely I have contemplated the things of God.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

Theology is a subject without an object