Jonathan Sacks Quotes

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

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.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

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.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

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

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

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

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

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.

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.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

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.

With wealth comes responsibility.

Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

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

Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

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

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.