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Jonathan Sacks Inspirational Quotes (75)

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As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
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The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
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Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
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Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.
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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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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
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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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Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
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With wealth comes responsibility.
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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.
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We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.
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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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Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.
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We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
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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.
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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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Giving is what makes a nation great.
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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 there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
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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.
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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.
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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.
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We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.
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