Through truth, Hashem's Oneness is revealed in the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part II §2
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 is hasty is given to sadness.
Sefer HaMidos, Depression, Part I §25
Through pursuing peace a person saves his children from death and from exile.
Sefer HaMidos, Peace, Part I §17
One who is able to write a sefer and does not write it, it is like losing children.
Sefer HaMidos, A Holy Book, Part I §1
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
When there is no compassion, famine comes to the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Compassion and Mercy, Part I §3
Hospitality to guests is greater than rising early to the study hall and greater than receiving the Shechinah.
Sefer HaMidos, Hospitality, Part I §6
Fasting is harder than the sword.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §3
A proud pauper is unbearable. He himself also regrets it later and becomes contemptible in his own eyes.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §21
Through jealousy one falls from his level.
Sefer HaMidos, A Fall, Part I §3
The Holy One, blessed be He, performs miracles only for one who believes in two worlds.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §3
At the moment fear comes upon a wicked person, it is known that at that moment Hashem is granting the tzaddik his desire.
Sefer HaMidos, Fear, Part I §1
One who is far from truth is far from tzedakah.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part I §23
Through rising at midnight, one will merit to understand the Torah and to expound it.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §79
Through dwelling in Eretz Yisrael, one perceives Hashem's providence over the world.
Sefer HaMidos, The Land of Israel, Part I §1
One who occupies himself with Torah at night — the Shechinah faces him.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §13
Sometimes Hashem does not accept the prayer of the tzaddik when he prays for a certain person, because Hashem knows that this person will later draw the tzaddik into his own sins.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §83
One who looks at the face of a liar comes to anger.
Sefer HaMidos, Anger, Part I §21
One should not take pride in great spiritual attainments or in good deeds, for everything comes through the tzaddik of the generation, and the person is to the tzaddik as a pen in the hand of a scribe.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §15
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
Through the teshuvah of a single individual, he and the whole world are forgiven.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §96
Falsehood comes from taking upon oneself the fear of people.
Sefer HaMidos, Truth, Part I §27
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
A person's longing to do a mitzvah is a sign that he has fear of Heaven.
Sefer HaMidos, Fear of God, Part I §38
The Torah endures only with one who stands bare for its sake, and with one who regards himself as one who does not know.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §46
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
One who has no fixed time for learning comes to immoral thoughts.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §52
Whatever a person learned in this world but was unable to grasp fully the true meaning of what he learned, he will merit to understand in its truth in Olam Haba.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §8
Crying out and weeping at night are heard more readily for mercy.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §100
A person does not merit to acquire Torah and good deeds in every place;
for this reason Hashem brings about circumstances that lead this person to leave one place for another.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part II §12
Through the outstanding and sharp scholars of the generation, fear of Heaven is illuminated; through fear of Heaven, the merit of the Avos shines forth;
and through the shining of the Avos, teshuvah is awakened in the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part II §5
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
Do not ask advice except from a man, and not from a woman.
Sefer HaMidos, Advice, Part I §10
Learn only from one who fears Heaven.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §74
When you want your prayer to be lifted up, pray for Israel.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §65
Through keeping Shabbos a person is like a son who is indulged by his father, who fulfills his requests. He also decrees and Hashem fulfills it.
And the principal of his good deeds remains intact for Olam Haba, while he enjoys only their fruits [in this world].
Sefer HaMidos, The Sabbath, Part I §5
When the matter truly requires it, it is permitted to do something that appears as though one is acting proudly.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §24
When there are two verses, and from one you can expound merit and good while from the other you can expound the opposite, expound the verse that speaks of merit and good.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §60
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
One who learns aloud lengthens his days, and his learning endures with him.
Sefer HaMidos, Torah Study, Part I §16
A mitzvah a person does for himself alone, however great, cannot compare to a mitzvah from which merit flows to the many, however small.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §55
Through grief comes heartache.
Sefer HaMidos, Depression, Part I §24
The nations are close to teshuvah.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §49
Through silence one merits trust.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §14
On a day of rain, salvation is fruitful and multiplies in the world, and those who plead in one's favor come before Him.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §16
Through an oath a person's longing is cut off.
Sefer HaMidos, A Fall, Part I §6
Hashem seeks for a person to pray before Him.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §66
Through tzedakah one merits children.
Sefer HaMidos, Charity, Part II §15
A segulah for nullifying arrogance: to give tzedakah.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §6
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
Through arrogance one comes to drunkenness, and the same holds true the other way around.
Sefer HaMidos, Haughtiness, Part I §4
Do not pray in a house built by a man of strife.
Sefer HaMidos, Prayer, Part I §32
A segulah to remove sadness: to hear an honored tzaddik when he sings.
Sefer HaMidos, Depression, Part I §27
One who brings people back in teshuvah merits to sit in the Heavenly Academy, and Hashem annuls decrees for his sake.
Sefer HaMidos, Repentance, Part I §24