What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time. Jonathan Sacks More Quotes by Jonathan Sacks More Quotes From Jonathan Sacks The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his. Jonathan Sacks religious faith god Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. Jonathan Sacks occupation football years Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. Jonathan Sacks careers space fun I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty. Jonathan Sacks uncertainty certainty Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean. Jonathan Sacks together mean No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work. Jonathan Sacks motivational-work hard-work easy Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul. Jonathan Sacks hate soul believe When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous. Jonathan Sacks dangerous forget remember In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel. Jonathan Sacks angel wrestling mean Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. Jonathan Sacks elderly volunteer organization The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. Jonathan Sacks games children moving The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image. Jonathan Sacks supreme religious challenges Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy. Jonathan Sacks wealth passion lifetime Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable. Jonathan Sacks differences husband government A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. Jonathan Sacks high-level activity levels While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. Jonathan Sacks writing children past God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences. Jonathan Sacks tolerance differences world Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. Jonathan Sacks spiritual healing christian We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised. Jonathan Sacks queens strong children 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? Jonathan Sacks three persons answers
