Story of Our Life

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None of us can read the story of our life – we can only live it. The result is that we live in and with uncertainty.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversations: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible – Genesis: The Book of Beginnings

Peace & Religion

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Peace involves a profound crisis of identity. The boundaries of self and other, friend and foe, must be redrawn. … If faith is enlisted in the cause of war, there must be an equal and opposite counter-voice in the name of peace. If religion is not part of solution, it will certainly be part of the problem.

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

What we do for God

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It is not what God does for us, but what we do for God, that changes us.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Covenant & Conversation