Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
Jonathan SacksReligion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
Jonathan SacksJews 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.
Jonathan Sacks