Jason Immanuel

“Memory is my story, the past that made me who I am, of whose legacy I am the guardian for the sake of generations yet to come. Without memory, there is no identity, and without identity, we are mere dust on the surface of infinity.”
― Jonathan Sacks, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

“It is when we are most blessed that we are most in need of protection – and the protection for which we pray is that the blessing remain a blessing and not turn into a curse – the curse of forgetting from where the blessings come.”
― Jonathan Sacks, Deuteronomy: Renewal of the Sinai Covenant

“We learn, not from our successes but from our failures. We mature and grow strong and become more understanding and forgiving through the mistakes we make. A protected life is a fragile and superficial life.”
― Jonathan Sacks, Genesis: The Book of Beginnings

“A consumer-driven, advertising-dominated culture militates daily against ongoing attachments. It is constantly inviting us to switch to a different brand, try something new, go for a better deal elsewhere. It should not come as a surprise that this begins to affect human relationships as well. A society saturated by market values would be one in which relationships were temporary, loyalties provisional and commitments easily discarded.”
― Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations