If you believe that you can damage,
believe that you can repair.
Likutei Moharan II, 112
Know that a person must cross a very, very narrow bridge,
and the main thing is not to be afraid at all.
Likutei Moharan II, 48
Through recognizing tzaddikim you will merit insight and understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §19
Through theft one loses understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §16
Through a false oath, one falls from emunah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §35
One who walks in simplicity becomes wise.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §16
Through a person's modesty, all the good that another took from him through his prayers is returned to him.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §6
A person is known by his servants, whether he loves falsehood or not.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §64
Through truth, the Holy One, blessed be He, redeems you from all troubles.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §67
One who has no emunah surely finds the statutes of the Holy One, blessed be He, repugnant.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §38
When a question about Hashem enters your mind, be silent.
Through the silence, your own thoughts will bring you an answer to your questions.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §15
Sometimes a person comes to a certain place and suffers there. He should know that his forefathers were in that place and fell into some heresy there, or that his children will come to that place and fall into some heresy, and because of this he now suffers in that place.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §1
Through the melodies that you sing, you awaken Hashem to look upon the nation whose melody you are singing, [and ask] why it holds you in bondage.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §28
Through keeping Shabbos a person draws the light of Moshiach upon himself;
also through teshuvah.
Sefer HaMidos, The Messiah, Part I §5
Through those who provide for the poor, the masses are saved from plague in their merit.
Also in their merit, expanded consciousness comes before constricted consciousness.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §5
Through tzedakah you will merit not to need salvation from any human being.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §13
When a person wants to know how to conduct himself in some matter, let him open a sefer and he will understand how to conduct himself.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §14
One who trusts in Hashem, may He be blessed, Hashem saves him from all troubles, and especially from being killed.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §7
The Holy One, blessed be He, performs miracles only for one who believes in two worlds.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §3
Through dwelling in Eretz Yisrael, one perceives Hashem's providence over the world.
Sefer HaMidos, The Land of Israel, Part I §1
The union of the Holy One, blessed be He, [with the Shechinah] comes about through the souls of Israel.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §21
Taking large strides disturbs the mind from contemplation.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §15
When Yisrael speak the truth, chesed flows down to them from Heaven through this.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §27
One who has trust in Hashem has no fear at all.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §1
One who wishes to delve deeply and contemplate some matter with his intellect should bind his mind to the Beis HaMikdash. An allusion to this:
"I will carry my knowledge from afar" (Job 36:3), and "He saw the place from afar" (Genesis 22:4).
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §10
Through trust, a person need not depend on his fellow, nor will anyone put him to shame.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §8
The sages of the generation are the wings of the generation. According to their wisdom, so is the generation's closeness to Hashem, may He be blessed, and its grasp of Him, or the opposite, that is, distance from Him, Heaven forbid. In the future, there will be no need to grasp His Godliness through wisdom, for it will be fulfilled in us:
"Your Teacher shall no longer be hidden behind wings" (Isaiah 30:20).
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §9
Before Hashem performs a miracle for a person, that person falls into misfortune, all in proportion to the greatness of the miracle.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §9
Through silence one merits trust.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §14
According to how much a person increases his good deeds, so does Hashem deepen his thoughts, that is, He gives him a great mind.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §34
One who lacks trust [in Hashem] speaks falsehoods.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §5
One who raises pigs holds back the redemption.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §45
One who needs some salvation should gladden the tzaddik.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §11
One who prays with joy will merit to rejoice in his salvation.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §22
War is the beginning of the redemption.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §44
Jerusalem will not be rebuilt until there is peace among Israel.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §46
Through emunah the mind becomes settled.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §11
Through fasting a person is saved from death.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §19
When one falls from his emunah, he comes to nocturnal impurity, to thoughts about women, and to thoughts of idolatry.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §29
No miracle is performed for an adulterer.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §7
Even the prophets know only what Hashem reveals to them.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §13
Through emunah, one comes to trust in Hashem.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §4
Through emunah, one is blessed.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §12
Through confusion of the mind, fear of Heaven is spoiled.
Also through confusion of the mind, one's dominion falls.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §8
Through emunah, one can understand Hashem.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §31
Through the money a person gives to the poor of Eretz Yisrael, his wealth endures in his hand.
Sefer HaMidos, The Land of Israel, Part I §6
When there is falsehood in you, then when the Holy One, blessed be He, wishes to bring you some salvation, the falsehood exposes your sins so that He will not save you.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §66
Hashem rests His prophecy intermittently upon a prophet sent on a mission, even if he is not wise.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §11
Through hisbodedus, salvation comes.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §3
Overeating makes a person fall from emunah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §13
Consolation comes through emunah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §8
One who is a mighty man does not have so much understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §14
One whose mind is confused should make a habit of saying the prayer of the prophet Chavakuk.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §2
At times Hashem brings things upon a person so that through them he will come to understand His compassion and His Godliness, may He be blessed.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §1
Through trust, one merits to know the holy Names.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §10
Through teshuvah, the spirit of Moshiach blows upon the decrees of the kingdoms and annuls them.
Sefer HaMidos, The Messiah, Part I §2
Through a person's yearning to come to Eretz Yisrael, abundant livelihood flows down.
Sefer HaMidos, The Land of Israel, Part I §3
Where there is no truth, there is no chesed.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §65
The waters of the Jordan are a segulah for trust.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §17
One who guards himself from transgressing 'You shall not covet' is thereby saved from anger and pride, and from the lack of emunah that comes through anger and pride.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §10