Jonathan Sacks Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
Einstein said it most famously: 'Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.'1
Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin
Defining yourself as a victim is ultimately a diminution of what makes us human. It teaches us to see ourselves as objects, not subjects.
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.