The Lord Is My Shepherd Quotes

“We are the messiah for somebody if not for everybody.”
― Harold Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm

“There will be dark days, days of loss and days of failure, but they will not last forever. The light will always return to chase away the darkness, the sun will always come out again after the rain, and the human spirit will always rise above failure. Fear will assault us, but we will not be afraid, “for Thou art with me.”
― Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm

“Wrong behavior carries with it the seeds of its own retribution.”
― Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm

“when He tells Moses, “When you go to Pharaoh, I will be with you” (italics added). For me, that is God’s name, the essence of what He is about. God is the one who is with us when we have to do something hard. He is the one who is with us when we are tempted to feel that the world has abandoned us. He is the one who is with us when we feel alone in the valley of the shadow.”
― Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm

“We cheat death, not by living forever, but by bearing, raising, and educating children to keep our souls, our values, and even our names alive. One generation, scarred and often embittered by experience, gives way to another, born in innocence and hope.”
― Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm

“Much of the time, we cannot control what happens to us. But we can always control how we respond to what happens to us. If we cannot choose to be lucky, to be talented, to be loved, we can choose to be grateful, to be content with who we are and what we have, and to act accordingly.”
― Harold S. Kushner, The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm