Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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

God, Honest, Ourselves

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, Politics, Today

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.
Jonathan Sacks

Business, Football, Study

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

Power, Freedom, Lost

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, Cannot, Dead

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Jonathan Sacks

Freedom, True, Justice

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
Jonathan Sacks

Time, Money, Emotional

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
Jonathan Sacks

Live, Envy, Find

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
Jonathan Sacks

Love, Trust, Future

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

Society, Place, High

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

Money, Give, Between

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
Jonathan Sacks

Political, Union, Religious

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
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Real, Face, Space

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.
Jonathan Sacks

Jewish, Faced, Survived

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Jonathan Sacks

Success, Nothing, Passion

Giving is what makes a nation great.
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Great, Giving, Nation

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, Single, Whole

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
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Change, Cannot, Another

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
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Moral, Religious, Suggest

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
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Ethical, Conduct, Britain

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
Jonathan Sacks

Learn, Difference, Threatened

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
Jonathan Sacks

Society, Revolution, Moral

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.
Jonathan Sacks

Complex, Phenomenon

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
Jonathan Sacks

Change, Done, Cannot

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

Work, Great, Hard

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Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: March 8, 1948

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