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.
If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born.
I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
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