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Sparks from Berditchev
The loftiest level in avodas Hashem is attained when one’s service is performed with the sole intention of providing pleasure to his Creator. When we focus not on what we gain through serving Hashem, but instead upon the pride our Father in Heaven has from our service, our souls burst with the love and splendor they attain from this close connection with the Source of all.

Kozhnitzer Maggid
When you daven for someone, they may not be capable of receiving the shefa you’re davening for. Therefore, one should daven for the kevod Shamayim that will be revealed when the shefa comes. Then they will be able to receive it even if they aren’t on the level for it.

Reb Joey Rosenfeld
It takes an immense amount of effort to cultivate true calmness, and in that place the effort is not a contradiction to the calmness, but rather each ounce of effort is illuminated with the light of the calmness itself.

Kedushas Levi
This is the meaning of our Sages’ teaching: “Know what is above you:” ‘Know’ that ‘what is above’ is caused by ‘you.’ Our actions below have an impact in the supernal realms of creation.

Yid Hakadosh
The desire and yearning to serve Hashem is so valuable that even a Yid who only has a desire to have a desire to serve Hashem is called an “eved Hashem.”

Gemarah Taanis
Torah is compared to water: just like water automatically flows to the lowest places, Torah naturally flows to the “lowest of places,” to those with the most humility.

Reb Zecharia Wallerstein
Someone who struggles develops what I call “struggle muscles,” and once you have struggle muscles, that gives you the ability to carry others.

Rav Matisyahu Salomon
No matter what else we are doing to be mechanech our children, it all must begin with tefillah.

Meor Einayim
The Torah, Hashem, and the Jewish nation are one, for the Jewish nation becomes unified with Hashem by way of the Torah.

Imrei Chaim
The Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz said that the yetzer hara once approached a certain Tzadik while he was davening ‘Nishmas,’ and told him that he wasn’t worthy of saying Nishmas because of some aveira he claimed that the Tzadik had done. The Tzadik responded to his yetzer hara: “You are right; I have sinned in the past and I will sin in the future, but right now it’s time for Nishmas.”