I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel... — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“I come from a religious tradition where we make a blessing over great scientists regardless of their views on religion.” — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“To believe in God, faith and the importance of religious practice does not involve an abdication of the intellect, a silencing of… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“We will only understand the Torah if we recall that every other religion in the ancient world worshiped nature. That is where… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.” — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“To whom is an international corporation answerable? Often they do not employ workers. They outsource manufacturing to places far away. If wages rise in… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
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. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
