Jonathan Sacks Quotes

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Ac...

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of t...

We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest a...

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone...

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one ...

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more...

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun...

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

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to exist...

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pi...

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a...

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in whic...

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? ...

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usuall...

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towa...

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many mira...

To whom is an international corporation answerable? Often they do not employ workers. They outsource...

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ...

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow ...

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see th...

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in th...

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do...

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our f...

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about...

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to techn...

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restor...

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenome...

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us t...

When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its ...

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, ar...

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, ...

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is ed...

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

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some...

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and...

Nowadays… deals are transactional rather than personal. Instead of placing your faith in a person, y...

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individual...

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of...

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need...

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ...

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to ...

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I...