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. - Jonathan Sacks 1 Share Now -
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. - Jonathan Sacks 2 Share Now -
The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it. - Jonathan Sacks 3 Share Now -
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. - Jonathan Sacks 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. - Jonathan Sacks 6 Share Now -
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. - Jonathan Sacks 7 Share Now -
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. - Jonathan Sacks 8 Share Now -
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say. - Jonathan Sacks 9 Share Now -
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order. - Jonathan Sacks 10 Share Now -
