Quotes from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

People often ask: Where was God in the Holocaust? It is the wrong question. The real question: Where was man?

“Optimism and hope are not the same. Optimism is the belief that the world is changing for the better; hope is the belief that, together, we can make the world better. Optimism is a passive virtue, hope an active one. It needs no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to hope.”