Jonathan SacksIn virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.371Humanity
Jonathan SacksThe first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole. ✨ Jonathan Sacks, United Synagogue, The… ▶352Reading
Jonathan SacksWhole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden o… ▶364Death
Jonathan SacksThe 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… ▶342Humanity
Jonathan SacksIf we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has r… ▶342HopeTime
Jonathan SacksReligion 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 with… ▶364Time
Jonathan SacksStabilizing 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 stab… ▶321HumanityPoliticsTime
Jonathan SacksSince the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.376Humor
Jonathan SacksGod is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. ✨ Falling birth rate is killing Europe, say… ▶321Philosophy
Jonathan SacksBritain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolut… ▶355HopeHumanityPolitics
Jonathan SacksThe test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? I… ▶377HopeThought
Jonathan SacksFind people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. ✨ In Tough Times, Seek the Spirit by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffing… ▶323HumanityThoughtTime
Jonathan SacksThe supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image. ✨ In Honor of Stamford’s 375th Anniversary - Many Faiths, One Community, Stamford… ▶346Hope
Jonathan SacksJust as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical… ▶379Humanity
Jonathan SacksWhile everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit. ✨ In T… ▶357HopePoliticsThought
Jonathan SacksFreedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less368Reflection
Jonathan SacksIn the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disci… ▶369Sadness
Jonathan SacksThe market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.292Reflection
Jonathan SacksCyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.347Humanity
Jonathan SacksGod has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.281Hope
Jonathan SacksThose who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are trag… ▶315Politics
Jonathan SacksI think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. ✨ Religion, Morality and the Financial Industry: An Interview With Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. Int… ▶272HumanityThought
Jonathan SacksGovernments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.316Politics
Jonathan SacksWe 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… ▶317Humanity
Jonathan SacksWhile we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.3410HopeTime
Jonathan SacksFaced with destruction, the Jewish people survived. ✨ Yom HaShoah: A Call to Remember From the Depths of Our Jewish Soul by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. A… ▶284Humanity
Jonathan SacksWhen 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 sl… ▶251Life
Jonathan SacksThe twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity. ✨ From Optimism to Hope. Book by Jonathan Sacks, 2004.317HopeReading
Jonathan SacksIn thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us… ▶285HopeHumanityThought
Jonathan SacksEurope 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.285DeathTimeTruth
