Jonathan Sacks Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• 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

  Children, Moving, Games

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

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

  Jonathan Sacks

  Sex, Self Esteem, Struggle

• Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me, it was reading about how the Catholic Church wrestled with itself in the 1960s. Pope John XXIII set Nostra Aetate - the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions - in motion. It changed the relationship between Jews and Catholics. Today, Jews and Catholics meet as friends. If you can do that, after the longest history of hatred the world has known, that empowers you as a Jew or a Muslim to wrestle with your faith.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Reading, Wrestling, Empowering

  Source: sojo.net

• Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Average, Europe

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

• Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Communication, Cutting, Technology

  "The Leader of the Future Comes From the Past" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

• We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Teacher, Hero, Media

• That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Party, Politics Today, British Politics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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