Jonathan Sacks citations

“My Lords, I and the vast majority of the Jewish community, care deeply about the future of the Palestinians. We want Palestinian children, no less than Israeli children, to have a future of peace, prosperity, freedom and hope. Which is why we oppose those who teach Palestinian children to hate those with whom they will one day have to live; who take money given for humanitarian aid and use it to buy weapons and dig tunnels to take the region back to a dark age of barbarism.”

“Judaism is the refusal to give way to despair.”

“Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.”

“The meaning of the word "true" here is similar to the word Amen said after a blessing. It is an act of affirmation and ratification, reminding us that the Shema is less a prayer than a declaration of faith.”

“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.”

“In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel…”

“We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.”

“The first of the "request" prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.”

“Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.”

“If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.”

“Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind. Any tune we chooose is fine so long as it does not disturb others.”

“A society, or for that matter, a political party, that tolerates antisemitism, that tolerates any hate, has forfeited all moral credibility.”