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In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride. (Jonathan Sacks)
Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy. View quote
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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights. View quote
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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. View quote
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Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. View quote
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The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies. View quote
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Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. View quote
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The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors. View quote
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The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe. View quote
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Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. View quote
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I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral. (Jonathan Sacks)
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet. View quote
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Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. View quote
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Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen. View quote
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As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders. View quote
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Whole 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 on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible. View quote
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Europe 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. View quote
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There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope. View quote
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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, "What happened?" but rather, "How then shall I live?" And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. View quote
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The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too. View quote
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While 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. (Jonathan Sacks)
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. View quote
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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. View quote
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Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. View quote
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God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. View quote
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