Jonathan Sacks Quotes

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

To pray well is the better half of study.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I'm a spiritual person.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Make the study of the Torah your chief occupation; speak little, but accomplish much.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

Spiritual growth and spirituality always seem suspect to some people.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.

I'm very spiritual.

Spirituality is a great bent of mind. It gives peace and hope to me.

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, broadens and strengthens the mind. The closet is a perfect school-teacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours in the study.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.