Path to Reconciliation

Cenotaph, Paris, Ontario, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     It is when you can feel your opponent's pain that you begin
     the path to reconciliations.

        Jonathan Sacks

Agent of Hope

Offering Plate, Christian Island, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     Perhaps faith is only created in the doing, happiness
     in the giving, and meaning in the courage to take
     risks for the sake of an ideal. All I know is that the
     greatest achievement in life is to have been, for one
     other person, even for one moment, an agent of
     hope.

        Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World

Stories

RIC_8241-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Only stories adequately reflect what it is to be human.

Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversation

Life

RIC_1737 a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Life alone is only half a life.

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

Conversation

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Prayers

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

I believe that all prayers that come from the heart converge in God’s infinity, where all persons are loved if they themselves love.

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

Particularity & Universality

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Our particularity is our universality. Only by being what we uniquely are, can we respect other people for what they uniquely are.

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

Worth

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

We are worth what we are willing to share.

Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility