Quotes from Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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!

First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.

When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!