Will any man with impure soul and with no intention to repent dare to approach the Most High God? The grateful soul of the wise man is the true altar of God.
PHILO JUDAEUS, 1st cent.
THINK not meanly of thyself, and despair not of perfection.
MOSES MAIMONIDES, 1200.
A MAN should so live that at the close of every day he can repeat: ‘I have not wasted my day’.
ZOHAR.