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"Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations."

Jonathan Sacks on Health

More quotes about Health

• "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."

  Buddha on Health

• "The wish for healing has always been half of health."

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Health

• "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

  Tom Stoppard on Health

• "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

  John Muir on Health

• "'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes."

  Henry David Thoreau on Health

More quotes by Jonathan Sacks

• "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology."

• "Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race."

• "Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past."

• "Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity."

• "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."