Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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• The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.
• The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.
• A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.
• Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
• Giving is what makes a nation great.
• I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
• Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.
• Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the…
• Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose…
• I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present…
• If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more…
• Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special…
• Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What…
• Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn…
• Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell…
• The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the…
• The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit…
• We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust…
• We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation…
• Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

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