Through telling stories of tzaddikim, one draws the light of Moshiach into the world and drives away much darkness and many troubles from the world.
One also merits fine garments.
Sefer HaMidos, The Messiah, Part I §1
A person is pained more by what he sees with his eyes than by what he merely knows.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §8
When a person does something in good faith and stumbles upon some obstacle, let him trust that Hashem will save him.
Hashem arranged the obstacle for him so that he would pave a trodden path for his children through this very obstacle, that they may be saved from it.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part II §1
Through a song of joy you will become a person of understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §32
A man of truth can recognize in another whether he is speaking the truth or not.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §55
Through truth the End comes.
Sefer HaMidos, The Messiah, Part I §4
The wise can grasp through wisdom many things that natural intellect cannot grasp.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §12
Emunah depends on a person's mouth.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §10
One who has lost his emunah should go to the graves of Jews and recount the kindnesses the Holy One, blessed be He, has done for him.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §9
Moshiach will not come until all the souls in the Guf [the heavenly treasury of souls] are exhausted.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §52
Flattery leads to heresy.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §2
Through truth, too, you will merit this.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §15
A rich man who lies: the mind cannot bear him, and he is also despicable in his own eyes.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §58
A woman who is careful with the mitzvah of challah will have children who are people of faith.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §14
The voice that comes from a holy person of understanding is a segulah for fear of Heaven.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part II §7
One who has no emunah does not accept rebuke.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §36
Through humility, you will merit emunah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §2
Through humility, salvation comes.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §21
One who has trust will not have his days cut short.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §12
A miracle is performed only for one who is ready to give up his life to sanctify Hashem's Name.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §1
When a person loses something, it is a sign that he has fallen from his emunah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §8
One who makes known the way of Hashem to the many, through this, even when he is among the nations, Hashem saves him.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §25
When you are insulted and remain silent, you will merit to understand the answer to your questions, and you will merit a spirit of understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §16
Through trust, a person escapes from his troubles.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §12
When you gaze at the heavens when they are pure and clear, you will merit faith in the sages.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §14
One who lacks trust should rise before daybreak and say supplications aloud.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §13
Those of little faith find it hard to attain new insights in Torah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §18
Through damaged emunah, judgments are aroused. Through thoughts of idolatry, judgments upon judgments are aroused, that is, the judgments already decided are judged again, to see whether they were decided properly, without leniency.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §12
A miracle comes through truth.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §23
Through flattery, trust is lost.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §16
Through trust, chesed will be done for you.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §20
Because Hashem's Godliness is not made known to the nations of the world, the nations entice and lead Israel astray to follow foreign wisdoms.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §11
The Holy One, blessed be He, hates the person who says one thing with his mouth and another in his heart.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §57
Through falsehood, you will surely hate the humble.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §63
Through trust one merits to rejoice in the chesed of Hashem, may He be blessed.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §17
One who does not prepare his heart cannot come to emunah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §7
Jerusalem will be redeemed only through tzedakah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §43
Through trust, a person is saved from worry.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §9
One who has emunah later merits to serve Hashem with great understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §17
Wine and fragrances make the mind clear.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §6
One who takes pleasure in the speech of a heretic, even when it is not heretical talk, comes to thoughts of idolatry.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §5
One who cannot sleep should bring to mind faith in the resurrection of the dead.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §17
Through emunah, the decrees that the nations decree against us are annulled.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part II §4
One who does not believe the words of the tzaddik will in the end not benefit from the matter, even though he sees it.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §37
One who rejoices in his sufferings brings salvation.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §2
What the eye sees is easier to understand.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §21
One who does not mention the name of an idol, Hashem does good things for him.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §10
Through fear of Heaven you will merit understanding.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §18
There will one day be a generation in the world that is entirely worthy.
Sefer HaMidos, The Messiah, Part I §3
One to whom some insight is revealed, it is known that he will soon be raised to some elevation.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §26
Also through hospitality to guests.
Sefer HaMidos, Knowledge of God, Part I §30
First one must believe in Hashem, and afterwards he will merit to understand Him with the intellect.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §20
The remedy for the mouth is to give tzedakah.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §59
Through tzedakah, salvation comes.
Sefer HaMidos, Salvation and Miracles, Part I §5
From the breath of the liar's mouth the yetzer hara is formed.
When Moshiach comes there will be no falsehood, and therefore there will be no yetzer hara in the world.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §54
One who guards himself from thoughts of idolatry merits trust each time anew, until he does not worry about what he will eat tomorrow. He is on the level of "Blessed is Hashem, day by day" (Psalms 68:20).
Through this, Hashem "has not beheld iniquity nor seen wrongdoing" in him (Numbers 23:21), and whoever touches him is as one who touches the apple of His eye.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part II §2
Through truth, the world is protected from all harm.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §60
That Israel wanders in exile from nation to nation is a sign that Moshiach will come.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §47
Through falsehood a person cannot truly trust.
Sefer HaMidos, Trust in God, Part I §6
When Moshiach comes, all the ministering powers above and below will fall ill.
But now, when some such power rises, Israel falls ill.
Sefer HaMidos, Faith, Part I §40