194 Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

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