Europe Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

10 Europe quotes by Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks blends philosophy and faith when he speaks of Europe, and these ten short reflections capture his measured, hopeful tone on the continent’s shared values.

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Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change…

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While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if…

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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind…

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As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

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Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything…

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Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever…

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In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was…

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Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little…

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People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very…

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The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical…

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Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we…

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