Quote by Jonathan Sacks
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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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds. – Jonathan Sacks

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Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? – Jonathan Sacks

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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

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My religion centers in different areas than whats considered conventional religion. – Jack Kevorkian

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Most modern science fiction went to school on Dune. Even Harry Potter with its boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. – Gary Ross

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Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? – Author Unknown

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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. – Matthew Arnold

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When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bulls eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim — improve yourself. – Gilbert Arland

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But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? – Vincent Van Gogh

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