Yisroel Salanter famous quotes

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Men #Worry #People

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Men #Imagination #Reason

There is no greater illness than discouragement!
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Anticipation #Illness #Discouragement

Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Effectiveness

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Spiritual #Bird #Spirituality

Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Writing #Hardest

There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Loss #Disease #Greater

True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#Community #Philanthropy #Salvation

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.
-- Yisroel Salanter

#People #Inspire #Study

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.