Quote by Jonathan Sacks
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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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Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. – 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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Future
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A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity. – Jonathan Sacks

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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. – Thomas More

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Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. – Dennis Prager

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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. – Bonnie Raitt

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The womens movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind. – Carol P. Christ

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At some point in your life, if youre lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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