Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes
To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.
The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.
I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.
Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words - these alone are without effect.
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies
Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.
If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.
Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God's blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope
Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.
Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire
Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.
