Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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• Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business,…
• Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
• Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food.…
• God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
• True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial…
• The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone…
• No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
• Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
• The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
• The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to…
• Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back…
• In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They…
• We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason,…
• What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement…
• When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be…
• If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to…
• Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of…
• Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across…
• 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.
• Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

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