Nature is not the final word, for nature itself was created by a being who stands outside
it and who, but making us in his image, gave us the power to stand outside it. We are free.
We can choose. We are not predestined by chance, fate, the stars, our darker instincts or
the human genome. We can opt for freedom over determinism, justice over the power of
power; we can stop at the brink of history’s endless replays and chart a different course.
We cannot defeat death, but we can defeat all those forces that lead human beings to kill
other, innocent human beings. We can choose life.
~ Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l
Chiefly Quotes: A collection of quotes from Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt’l (Chosen & arranged by Rabbi Johnny Solomon).
see: Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century (2009) p. 23
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