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For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we each are free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of the darkness of the world.

Jonathan Sacks

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To Light Our Own Flame

Topic: Interfaith Pathways

“For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we each are free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of the darkness of the world.”

Jonathan Sacks (1948-2020)
Judaism
The Home We Build Together

Sacks, Jonathan. The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society. Continuum, 2009, [Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (rabbisacks.org website)].

Jonathan Sacks

Additional Jonathan Sacks Quotes

“Side-by-side relationships [doing constructive things together] should be encouraged in all religious congregations. Faith leaders should urge their communities to reach out to others in the neighborhood…. Religious representatives should take a lead in creating a covenant around the values we share and our collective commitment to the common good. Faith divides; citizenship unites. That is why it is important for faith leaders to spell out the need for shared space where we celebrate our common humanity, not just our theological particularities.”

–Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks [The Home We Build Together] p. 239.

“Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.”

–Jonathan Sacks [From Optimism to Hope (2004)] p. 69.

“Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.”

–Jonathan Sacks [The Case for God, first broadcast on BBC1, 6 September 2010].

Resources

  • Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Home We Build Together
  • Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Why Hanukkah is the perfect festival for religious freedom, Acts of Faith

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