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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruis

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

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Follow your passion. Nothing – not wealth, success, accolades or fame – is worth spending a lifetime doing things you dont enjoy. – Jonathan Sacks

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While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if its hard. Invest in the spirit. – Jonathan Sacks

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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. – Jonathan Sacks

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they dont want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. – William Robertson Smith

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So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you. – Jesus Christ

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We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. – George A. Smith

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