Jonathan Sacks

Quotes

• “We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.”
• “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.”
• “Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.”
• “The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.”
• “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.”
• “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.”

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