We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the uncertainty of the future while acknowledging the rapid pace of change.
Jonathan Sacks highlights the inherent unpredictability of the direction in which the world is heading, emphasizing that although we lack clarity about the future, we cannot ignore the swift and often overwhelming changes that are taking place. This quote serves as a reminder that while we may feel lost in a fast-moving world, the reality of change is constant and sometimes daunting.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the impact of technology on society.
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.
The first and most important thing a man should keep away from is not doing harm of any kind knowingly to anyone, at any time.
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
To advance the Gospel by political lobbying, by any form of pragmatism, shallow Gospel entertainment, emotional manipulation, acceptance of sin and sinners, is to cross over into the devil's work.
He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.
War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.
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