Abdu'l Baha Quotes

#1. Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.

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#2. Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.

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#3. Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!

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#4. In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.

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#5. 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?

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#6. Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.

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#7. 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

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#8. 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.

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#9. Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

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#13. If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

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#14. Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind

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#15. 205. "Endure every difficulty and hardship with a dilated heart, attract spirit and eloquent tongue, in remembrance of the merciful."~

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#16. To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

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#17. It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

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#18. 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.

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#19. Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.

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#20. And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.

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#21. In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.

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#22. If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

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#23. 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.

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#24. The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.

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#25. 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.

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#26. Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path

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#27. 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

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#28. 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.

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#29. The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.

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#30. It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being ... until ye change the world of man into the world of God.

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#31. By nothing,under no conditions, be ye perturbed.

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#32. Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

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#33. A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love

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#34. 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.

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#35. Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might just ask me the same question.

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#36. 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.

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#37. The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.

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#38. To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

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#39. The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.

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#40. Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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#41. Help along one another's projects and plans.

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#42. The home of Religion is the heart.

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#43. Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

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#44. 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

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#45. Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

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#46. My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.

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#47. Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds ...

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#48. Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

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#49. 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.

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#50. knowledge is the cause of human progress.

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#51. Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

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#52. An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit,
is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar
without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit
can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.

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#53. God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?

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#54. When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.

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#55. If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

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#56. There is but one power which heals - that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.

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#57. Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms

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#58. If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.

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#59. In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.

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#60. The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.

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#61. Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.

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#62. People think religion is confined in an edifice, to be worshipped at an altar. In reality it is an attitude toward divinity which is reflected through life.

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#63. 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.

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#64. I want you to be happy ... to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.

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#65. Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

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#66. 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.

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#67. Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

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#68. Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.

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#69. 210. "Experiences do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by Divine Mercy for our own perfection." ~

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#70. 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.

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#71. If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations

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#72. The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.

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#73. Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another's ears nor comprehend with another's brain. Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.

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#74. There is no contradiction between true religion and science

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#75. When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

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#76. The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.

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#77. Love everybody, serve everybody.

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#78. Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

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#79. The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

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#80. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it ...

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#81. Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love

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