If someone comes to you entreating aid, do not say in refusal: “Trust in God, He will help,” but act as if there were no God, and none to help but you.

Moshe Leib Sassover (1745–1807) Rabbi, founder of the Sassov Hasidic dynasty

(Attributed)

In Louis I. Newman, comp., The Hasidic Anthology, 186.1 (1934)