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Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
British Clergyman
Born: Mar 8, 1948
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Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon. Jonathan Sacks
Complex Phenomenon
Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy. Jonathan Sacks
Time Money Sacrifice Energy Parenthood Emotional Attention Involves Massive
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it. Jonathan Sacks
Time Change Our Our Time Moral About No-One Undergoing Talking Climate Climate Change Equivalent Truths Dying Europe
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. Jonathan Sacks
God Collective Single Back Our Blind Spot Still Cultural Intellectual Get Biggest Europe Whole
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors. Jonathan Sacks
People Better Worship Defined Evidence Neighbors Religious Religious People Attendance Make Place Regular Shows Actually
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. Jonathan Sacks
Alone Government Secular Past Society Philanthropy Our Relative Evolutionary Highly Altruism Go Sources Left Cannot Deep Gap Fill Britain
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds. Jonathan Sacks
Food Words Result Goals United Nations Out High Fine Prices Development New Reached Been Artificially Often Nations Being Turned Deeds United Millennium Start Kept Set
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good. Jonathan Sacks
Good Matter Universe Our Brought Seeks More Mere Motion Were Than Being Who Creator
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit. Jonathan Sacks
Politics Future Economics Thinking Else Everyone Everyone Else Spirit About Invest Executive Opposite Salaries While Hard Euro Even
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 of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself. Jonathan Sacks
Family Queen Better Past Transformation Society Starts Changes Herself Significant Significant Changes No-One Most Does Always Years Than Role In The Past Played Royal Royal Family Britain Appreciate
In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued. Jonathan Sacks
Queen Better Church Cares Everyone Meets Valued Religious Civic No-One Head Feel She Making Subjects Role England Her
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities. Jonathan Sacks
Work Faith Philip Charles Outstanding Prince Prince Charles Done Them Communities Royals
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher. Jonathan Sacks
Teacher Leadership Leader Negotiate Ancient Prominence Kind Rarely Given More Put New Safely New Kind Coming Been Years Precisely May Mean Deserves Need
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 to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs. Jonathan Sacks
Life Day Memory Back Our Our Lives Ensure Focal We Cannot Focal Point Vital Point Remembrance Calendar Dead Undertake Doing Were Providing Forgotten Cannot Us Lives Bring Jewish
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. Jonathan Sacks
God Time Day Prayer Perspective Three Beauty Control Breath Other Recover Part Over Also Judaism Surely Gently Faiths Doing Times Stop Eternity Turn Inhale Deep Deep Breath
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 by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. Jonathan Sacks
War Government Freedom History Change Events Old Revolution Guard Later Hopes Civil Civil War Dashed Rather More Sooner Mass New Protest Replacement Than Often Creates Shows Streets Raised
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. Jonathan Sacks
Education Today Politics Game World Tomorrow Build Changes Our Tell Born Pieces Children Moves Stories
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders. Jonathan Sacks
Political Meet Religious Religious Leaders Leaders Political Leaders Should Euro Union Europe European European Union Save
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 as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling. Jonathan Sacks
Work Bible Blessing Prosperity Values Poverty Market Market Economy Out Spirit Sacred Divine Noble Crushes Economy Well Calling Material Task Hebrew Body Deeply Set
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
Charity Money Church Carried Out Give More Between Likely Frequent Survey Across
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations. Jonathan Sacks
Health People Young Community Active Those Neighborhood Citizens Civic More Likely Also Concerned Frequent Arts Leisure Young People Organizations Professional Groups Belong Associations
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 inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. Jonathan Sacks
Freedom World Inspire Power Lost Imagination Jews Drama Liberation Religious Ritual Never Observed Generations Continuously Festival Centuries Across Successive Oldest Slavery Jewish
Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut. Jonathan Sacks
Work Time People Speak Better Long Seen Long Time Politicians State Background Has-Been Kind Would Would-Be About Budgets Sound Amateur Undervalued Hear Been Version Done Often Being Cut Britain
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