Frases de Jonathan Sacks

„O judaísmo é a recusa em dar lugar ao desespero.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

„O século XXI é, e continuará sendo, a Era da Insegurança.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

„My Lords, I and the vast majority of the Jewish community, care deeply about the future of the Palestinians. We want Palestinian children, no less than Israeli children, to have a future of peace, prosperity, freedom and hope. Which is why we oppose those who teach Palestinian children to hate those with whom they will one day have to live; who take money given for humanitarian aid and use it to buy weapons and dig tunnels to take the region back to a dark age of barbarism.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

Other

„Judaism is the refusal to give way to despair.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

The Case for God, first broadcast on BBC1, 6 September 2010

„The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

Fonte: From Optimism to Hope (2004), p. 71

„A society, or for that matter, a political party, that tolerates antisemitism, that tolerates any hate, has forfeited all moral credibility.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

House of Lords debate on antisemitism, 20 June 2019 https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/tonge-blames-israel-for-jew-hate-during-debate-on-antisemitism-1.485685
Other

„In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel…“

—  Jonathan Sacks

The Case for God, first broadcast on BBC1, 6 September 2010

„We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

Speech to Kenan Ethics department, 2009.
Universal, 2009

„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.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

Fonte: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book (4th ed 2006), p.XVII

„Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

The Case for God, first broadcast on BBC1, 6 September 2010

„Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind. Any tune we chooose is fine so long as it does not disturb others.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

„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.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

Fonte: The Authorised Daily Prayer Book (4th ed 2006), pp.386-7

„Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

Fonte: From Optimism to Hope (2004), p. 69

„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.“

—  Jonathan Sacks

Fonte: From Optimism to Hope (2004), p. 42