Menachem Mendel of Kotzk quotes

“Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Source : "The Season of the Witch: Le Couer Dechire" by Etienne De Mendes, (p. 545), 2008.

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“There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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“When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Source : "Tales of the Hasidim : The Later Masters" by Martin Buber, translated by Olga Marx, 1948.

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“God is only where you let Him in.”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Source : "Innerspace : Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy‎" by Aryeh Kaplan, (p. 160), 1990.

“First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Source : "Leaping Souls : Rabbi Menachem Mendel And The Spirit Of Kotzk". Book by Chaim Feinberg, 1993.

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“People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Source : "The Big Little Book of Jewish Wit & Wisdom‎" by Sally Ann Berk, (p. 73), 2000.

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“One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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“Peace without truth is a false peace.”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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“God dwells where we let God in.”
-- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

#Letting Go Quotes

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.”

“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”

“With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.”

Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

“To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.”

“Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.”

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.”

“The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.48

“Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.”

“Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.”