God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. Jonathan Sacks More Quotes by Jonathan Sacks More Quotes From Jonathan Sacks Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. Jonathan Sacks citizensgovernmentneeds Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations. Jonathan Sacks organizationpeopleart I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct. Jonathan Sacks expectationspeoplethinking Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. Jonathan Sacks incomeraceage In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. Jonathan Sacks ethicsrevolutionself 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. Jonathan Sacks growing-upmotherfather Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. Jonathan Sacks 18th-centurydemisecentury 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. Jonathan Sacks dyingeuropetalking The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities. Jonathan Sacks royalcommunitydone 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. Jonathan Sacks cuttinggovernmentperfect 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 eventsgovernmentwar Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived. Jonathan Sacks surviveddestructionpeople As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders. Jonathan Sacks leaderreligiouseurope Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. Jonathan Sacks communityreligiousself A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity. Jonathan Sacks charitychurchgiving 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. Jonathan Sacks preludeoppressionregimes With wealth comes responsibility. Jonathan Sacks wealthresponsibility To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education... Jonathan Sacks armycivilizationcountry After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart. Jonathan Sacks templesdoeheart 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. Jonathan Sacks perspectivethreeprayer
