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Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
British Clergyman
Born: Mar 8, 1948
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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 of rights to others. Jonathan Sacks
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To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. Jonathan Sacks
Education You Army Country Civilization Defend Need
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve. Jonathan Sacks
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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 relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. Jonathan Sacks
Best Good Religion Community Relationships Citizenship Religious About Something Self Tenor Towards Within Altruism Makes Common Common Good Us Creates Turns Away
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. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life. Jonathan Sacks
Life God Time Food Day Prayer Book Our Collectively Introspection Rarest Atonement Written Instead Without Pray Repeatedly Sins Festival Confess Holy Fasting Phenomena Jewish
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency. Jonathan Sacks
God Forgiveness To Be Honest Plead Our Recognize Ourselves Admit Imperfections Failures Clemency Us Honest
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. Jonathan Sacks
Technology People Space Face Benefit Face-To-Face Chatting Real Cyberspace Compensate
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media. Jonathan Sacks
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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home. Jonathan Sacks
Work Good Home Together Build Idea Rediscover Common Common Good Work Together Need
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. Jonathan Sacks
Faith Day People Fear Free Live Jews Gave One Day Would Would-Be Never Because Without Were Up Itself Survived Regarded Which Centuries Holocaust Even Defeats
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued. Jonathan Sacks
World Our Must Threatened Argued Feel Learn Difference Interconnected
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. Jonathan Sacks
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The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe. Jonathan Sacks
Universe Lies Outside Meaning Meaning Of
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 blessing on seeing the Queen. Jonathan Sacks
Family Prayer Respect Blessing Queen Every Jews Synagogue Recite Say Seeing Sabbath Them Special Deep Royal Royal Family
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? Jonathan Sacks
Religion Three Live Every Must Shall Because How Am Answers Questions Reflective Survives Person Ask Then Who Who Am I Why Here
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. Jonathan Sacks
Good Wealth Not Perfect Creation Market Market Economy Distribution About Perfect Economy Very
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 citadels are schools. Jonathan Sacks
Education Freedom People Passion Heroes Jews Our Schools Became Begins Children Teach Teachers Whose Why
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. Jonathan Sacks
Best Religion History Age Face Society Biology Evolutionary Consumer Individualism Idea Without Antidote Flies Now
What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time. Jonathan Sacks
Time Celebrate Year Way Find About Lights Festival Story Transformed Fascinating Jewish
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers. Jonathan Sacks
Dreams Home Great Dreamers Visit Possibility Religious Religious Leaders Leaders Feel Were Discover Human Where Lands Landscapes Many
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. Jonathan Sacks
God Time Good Spiritual Dignity Healing Culture World Values Nothing Society State Everything Neither One Thing Recover Come Another Material Nor Surrounds Stable Human Which Human Dignity Ethic Us Euro Thing Image
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. Jonathan Sacks
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Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. Jonathan Sacks
Education Day Youth Welfare Protection Care Community Sick Jews Our Our Community Lifeblood Could Volunteers Abuse Involve Know Without Exist Whether Against Elderly Organizations Even Violence Bones
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. Jonathan Sacks
Religion Imminent Since Demise Western Intellectuals Predicted Century Many
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety. Jonathan Sacks
Peace People Safety Entitled Nation Live Other Israel Any
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. Jonathan Sacks
Education Best Age Gender Out Civic Indicator More Involvement Than Accurate Race Turns Income
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