Harold Kushner Quotes

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose.

When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection.

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.