Jonathan Sacks Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Children, Writing, Past

• 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

  Religious, Self, Community

  "Rowan Williams: no one voted for coalition policies" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2011.

• When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Fall, Commitment, Hands

  "An Ecology of Love" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2012.

• 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

  Art, Organization, People

• The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Community, Done, Royal

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

• Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Average, Europe

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

• 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, Organization, Volunteer

• 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

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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