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Jonathan Sacks Quotes

British - Clergyman | March 8, 1948 -

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Live People Envy Find Admire Ideals

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

Future Community Children Past Write

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.

People America Debt Personal Trapped

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

Home Dreams Great Feel Human Where

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

Work Hard Work Great Easy Hard Seem

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

People Better Place Neighbors Make

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Forgiveness God Admit Imperfections

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.

God Trust Yourself People Believe

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

People Think Media Seventy Holocaust

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

Present Humanity Civilization See

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.

Time Celebrate Story Year Find Way

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

Love Risks People Grow Hands Fall

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