Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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• The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

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  God, Faith, Religious

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• Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Share, Made

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• Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

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  Mean, Together

  "The Roots of Religious Extremism". Interview with Walter Russell Mead, www.cfr.org. October 14, 2015.

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• I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

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  Certainty, Uncertainty

  "Rabbi Sacks, Faith, and Certainty". www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2010.

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• 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 out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

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  Fun, Careers, Space

  "5 Rules for the New Year" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

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  Hate, Believe, Soul

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• There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

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  World, Never Lose Hope, Jew

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• The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

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  Children, Moving, Games

  "Teach Your Children Well for a Better Life" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

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  Country, Army, Civilization

  "A Religious Response to Religious Violence". Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at the Faith Angle Forum in South Beach, Miami, Florida, faithangle.org. May 2015.

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• When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

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  Remember, Forget, Dangerous

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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.

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  Passion, Wealth, Lifetime

  "5 Rules for the New Year" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

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  Stories, Likes, Mankind

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• The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

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  Religious, Challenges, Supreme

  "In Honor of Stamford’s 375th Anniversary - Many Faiths, One Community, Stamford Proud" by Rabbi Daniel Cohen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2016.

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• No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

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  Hard Work, Motivational Work, Easy

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2017

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• We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

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  Home, Ideas, Working Together

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• While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

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  Children, Writing, Past

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• The idols of today are unmistakable -
  self-esteem without achievement,
  sex without consequences,
  wealth without responsibility,
  pleasure without struggle and
  experience without commitment.

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  Sex, Self Esteem, Struggle

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• God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

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  Differences, Tolerance, World

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• A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

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  Levels, High Level, Activity

  "The Jewish community could not exist for a day without its volunteers" by Jonathan Sacks, rabbisacks.org. October 29, 2012.

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• The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

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  Violence, Conversation, Antidote

  "The Dignity of Difference". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. October 29, 2015.

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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, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

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  Football, Years, Occupation

  "Passover’s Freedom Is Control Over Time" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• 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?

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  Three, Answers, Persons

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• In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

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  Mean, Wrestling, Angel

  "The Case for God?". BBC Documentary, September 06, 2010.

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• God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

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  Imperfection, Honest, Being Honest

  "Democratized Holiness: Yom Kippur And Moral Responsibility" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• 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 wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

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  Husband, Differences, Government

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