Jonathan Sacks quote: "God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency."

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ...
JONATHAN SACKS

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U...
JONATHAN SACKS

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals ...
JONATHAN SACKS

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about...
JONATHAN SACKS

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
JONATHAN SACKS

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime...
JONATHAN SACKS

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towa...
JONATHAN SACKS

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to techn...
JONATHAN SACKS

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
JONATHAN SACKS

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restor...
JONATHAN SACKS

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of ...
JONATHAN SACKS

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the be...
JONATHAN SACKS

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
JONATHAN SACKS

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - act...
JONATHAN SACKS

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individual...
JONATHAN SACKS

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenome...
JONATHAN SACKS

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals se...
JONATHAN SACKS

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do...
JONATHAN SACKS

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years afte...
JONATHAN SACKS

The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosper...
JONATHAN SACKS

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? ...
JONATHAN SACKS

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church....
JONATHAN SACKS

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some...
JONATHAN SACKS

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they wer...
JONATHAN SACKS

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
JONATHAN SACKS

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising ...
JONATHAN SACKS

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descr...
JONATHAN SACKS

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not distu...
JONATHAN SACKS

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each ye...
JONATHAN SACKS

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind. Any tune we choose is fine so long as it does n...
JONATHAN SACKS

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembran...
JONATHAN SACKS

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many mira...
JONATHAN SACKS

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in whic...
JONATHAN SACKS

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, ar...
JONATHAN SACKS

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they a...
JONATHAN SACKS

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, ...
JONATHAN SACKS

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to exist...
JONATHAN SACKS

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a...
JONATHAN SACKS

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one wh...
JONATHAN SACKS

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of...
JONATHAN SACKS

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They ...
JONATHAN SACKS

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control g...
JONATHAN SACKS

It's time for me to go on to Act III, ... Act III is personal growth and getting back to the things ...
JONATHAN SACKS

This will be AOL's first multi-bandwidth and multi-device client. AOL is about convenience and appli...
JONATHAN SACKS

You are seeing a kind of dot-com madness.
JONATHAN SACKS

(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineer...
JONATHAN SACKS

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usuall...
JONATHAN SACKS

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com...
JONATHAN SACKS

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
JONATHAN SACKS

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more...
JONATHAN SACKS

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious lea...
JONATHAN SACKS

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I...
JONATHAN SACKS

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in ...
JONATHAN SACKS

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ...
JONATHAN SACKS

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work w...
JONATHAN SACKS

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
JONATHAN SACKS

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see th...
JONATHAN SACKS

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its ...
JONATHAN SACKS

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in...
JONATHAN SACKS

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
JONATHAN SACKS

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Ac...
JONATHAN SACKS

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need...
JONATHAN SACKS

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...
OLIVER SACKS

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...
OLIVER SACKS

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...
OLIVER SACKS

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will...
OLIVER SACKS

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in...
OLIVER SACKS

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
OLIVER SACKS

Her public perception as a mother is very strong. People like her. There's not a diva association. F...
ANDREW SACKS

Her public perception as a mother is very strong.
ANDREW SACKS

I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhap...
OLIVER SACKS

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the pers...
OLIVER SACKS

We left the meeting with a list of open issues, not a handshake.
DAVID SACKS

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.
FRANK SACKS

This is a modified version of the old diet, ... The DASH diet was a real breakthrough for lowering b...
FRANK SACKS

For the scrapbook, I put a lot of pictures in, along with postcards and pamphlets from the offices o...
MARLA SACKS

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, ou...
OLIVER SACKS

We're thrilled to be partners with Fox Searchlight.
DAVID SACKS

I know when my company has closed a deal and when it hasn't.
DAVID SACKS

We're incredibly proud that 'Smoking' is our debut film and we're thrilled to be partners with Fox S...
DAVID SACKS

This diet should be a frontrunner. It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of pati...
FRANK SACKS

This diet should be a frontrunner, ... It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of ...
FRANK SACKS

We think people will like these diets better than low-fat high carbohydrate diets because it gives t...
FRANK SACKS

I'm in favor of drug therapy and being aggressive with drug therapy with patients who are high risk ...
FRANK SACKS

[Making these changes] is going to prevent people from getting into trouble later in life, having he...
FRANK SACKS

More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to ...
FRANK SACKS

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact ...
OLIVER SACKS

First, dealers are ignoring their best customers. They are spending 80 percent of their time on walk...
JEFF SACKS

Over 60 percent of all dealership costs are personnel related.
JEFF SACKS

By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul...
JEFF SACKS

We?re seeing that some dealers are getting their best customer responses and better sales through th...
JEFF SACKS

Shower attention on a customer who owns a car with eighty thousand miles on it because he or she is ...
JEFF SACKS

During these first two years, maintenance revenue per vehicle is $150 to $200.
JEFF SACKS

At most dealerships, the incentive system is stacked in favor of the new customers.
JEFF SACKS

I also wanted to show the county 4-H leaders that sent me how much I learned so they would keep givi...
MARLA SACKS

I knew as soon as you got New Orleans cats together you were going to have the spirit and sound of t...
LEO SACKS

I wanted the musical continuity we could achieve with a house band, and I also wanted thematic conti...
LEO SACKS

I was sitting in my new home in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, horrified like everyone else. I knew w...
LEO SACKS

من السهل تذكر الأمور الجميلة في الحياة ، الأوقات التي ي...
OLIVER SACKS

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for ...
OLIVER SACKS

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
OLIVER SACKS

Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still bar...
DAVID O. SACKS

If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest fin...
DAVID O. SACKS

There is some risk that if the wrong regulatory regime gets adopted in the U.S., then the center of ...
DAVID O. SACKS

Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokeniz...
DAVID O. SACKS

After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling Pa...
DAVID O. SACKS

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa...
JONATHAN HICKMAN

I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sur...
JONATHAN KRISEL

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie...
JONATHAN COE

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS

I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
JONATHAN ROSS

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
JONATHAN ANDERSON

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo...
JONATHAN TUCKER

I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend an...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwe...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN

When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor...
JONATHAN EVISON

One person's car is another person's scenery.
JONATHAN IVE

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played t...
JONATHAN FRID

When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers...
JONATHAN MABERRY

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I...
JONATHAN TOEWS

I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started...
JONATHAN TOEWS

I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
JONATHAN LETHEM

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi...
JONATHAN KOZOL

I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hur...
JONATHAN VILMA

The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief momen...
JONATHAN GALASSI

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY

Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT

During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
JONATHAN ANDERSON

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real...
JONATHAN HAIDT

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa...
JONATHAN CARROLL

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN

The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL

Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM

More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL

May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE

Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD

The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD

Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD

Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

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