Jonathan Sacks Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

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

“There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.”

“With wealth comes responsibility.”

“A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.”

“Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.”

“In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.”

“The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.”

“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.”

“Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.”

“If 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 rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.”