Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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

Work, Great, Hard

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.
Jonathan Sacks

Beauty, Time, God

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.
Jonathan Sacks

Religion, Good, Best

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks

Age, Religion, Best

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
Jonathan Sacks

Religion, Live, Person

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

Education, Age, Best

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.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Time, Control

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
Jonathan Sacks

Science, Why, Cannot

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Science, Human

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

Religion, Since, Century

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
Jonathan Sacks

Time, Good, God

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
Jonathan Sacks

Power, Technology, Help

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.
Jonathan Sacks

America, Personal, Anyone

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.
Jonathan Sacks

Together, Place, Broken

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

Place, Actually, Religious

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
Jonathan Sacks

Faith, Time, God

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.
Jonathan Sacks

Small, Poor, Left

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
Jonathan Sacks

Meet, Among, Inspiring

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
Jonathan Sacks

Work, Poverty, Blessing

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
Jonathan Sacks

Good, Perfect, Wealth

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.
Jonathan Sacks

Universe, Lies, Meaning

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
Jonathan Sacks

Home, History, Freedom

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

Peace, Live, Nation

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

Faith, Work, Done

The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
Jonathan Sacks

Good, Matter, Universe

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Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: March 8, 1948

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