Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
Interpretation
Marriage is a deep, meaningful connection that resembles the beauty of art.
In this quote, Jonathan Sacks suggests that marriage, when rooted in fidelity and commitment, becomes a profound and beautiful creation, akin to a work of art. Just as art reflects beauty, emotion, and complexity, so too does a faithful marriage reflect these same qualities, making it one of life's most significant and cherished experiences.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, highlighting the beauty of marriage.
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 should be careful / Of each other, we should be kind / While there is still time.
The way I go about it is that we should all be inviting people into our lives who don't look like us, speak like us and don't come from where we come from.
What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.
Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
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