Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Ktis a British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 March 1948
running commitment shopping
When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.
community royal done
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
religious people attendance
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
art fidelity works-of-art
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
memories remembrance calendars
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.
husband government differences
Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.
mother challenges inspire
Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
likes stories mankind
Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
blessing differences curse
It is through exchange that difference becomes a blessing, not a curse.
thinking people expectations
I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.
church england host
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.
affliction slavery bread
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.
race age income
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
religious want moral
I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.