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Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
Jonathan Sacks
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Jonathan Sacks
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: March 8
Died: 2020
Died: November 7
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No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
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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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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
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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.
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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.
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We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.
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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.
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Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.
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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
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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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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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