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!”
• “When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face — that is idol worship!”
• “If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!”
• “Everything must be done Lesheim Shamayim (for the sake of Heaven), even [actions done] Lesheim Shamayim.”
• “God is only where you let Him in.”
• “First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.”

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