Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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• Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
• The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed…
• Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe…
• Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and…
• Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
• Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less
• Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
• Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense…
• 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…
• 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…
• Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
• The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
• When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
• We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.
• 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.
• Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.
• In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel...
• It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.
• When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes…
• Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical…

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