Top 74 Baha I Quotes
#1. I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.
Justin Baldoni
#2. The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
Rainn Wilson
#3. I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
Rainn Wilson
#4. Roxana, when you go back to America, please tell others that our country is not only about the nuclear issue--it's also about people like us." -- my former cellmate, Mahvash Sabet, who is serving 20 years in prison in Iran as one of the leaders of the minority Baha'i faith
Roxana Saberi
#5. When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.
Cass McCombs
#6. I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
Rainn Wilson
#7. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#8. I'm a Baha'i; we really believe in Baha'i faith that our work has to be our service, especially in the arts.
Justin Baldoni
#9. Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.
Baha'u'llah
#10. All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
Baha'u'llah
#11. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it ...
Abdu'l- Baha
#12. 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
Abdu'l- Baha
#13. A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
Baha'u'llah
#14. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#15. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#16. I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
Baha'u'llah
#17. 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
Abdu'l- Baha
#18. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#19. The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds
Baha'u'llah
#20. My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.
Abdu'l- Baha
#21. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.
Baha'u'llah
#22. Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form/When within thee the universe is folded?Baha'u'llah
Baha'u'llah
#23. Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
Baha'u'llah
#24. O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.
Baha'u'llah
#25. Be thou as a throbbing artery, pulsating in the body of the entire creation, that through the heat generated by this motion there may appear that which will quicken the hearts of those who hesitate.
Baha'u'llah
#26. Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
Baha'u'llah
#27. The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Abdu'l- Baha
#28. O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.
Baha'u'llah
#29. Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
Abdu'l- Baha
#31. Earth is but one country and mankind is it's citizens.
Baha'u'llah
#32. O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
Baha'u'llah
#33. So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.
Rainn Wilson
#34. I got my boots out of the closet, put them on, and buckled a belt with a knife on it around my waist under my robe. Baha-char was the place where you went to find things. Sometimes things found you instead and tried to take your money.
Ilona Andrews
#35. I want you to be happy ... to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
Abdu'l- Baha
#36. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#37. Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.
Abdu'l- Baha
#38. Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
Baha'u'llah
#39. The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.
Violette Nakhjavani
#40. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#41. O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.
Baha'u'llah
#42. Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
Baha'u'llah
#43. When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.
Abdu'l- Baha
#44. If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
Abdu'l- Baha
#45. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#46. 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
Abdu'l- Baha
#47. If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.
Abdu'l- Baha
#48. Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.
Baha'u'llah
#49. Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.
Baha'u'llah
#50. In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
Abdu'l- Baha
#51. God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
Abdu'l- Baha
#52. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#53. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#54. Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.
Baha'u'llah
#55. O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
Baha'u'llah
#56. Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
Baha'u'llah
#57. The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
Abdu'l- Baha
#58. The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.
Baha'u'llah
#59. He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.
Baha'u'llah
#61. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#62. Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
Baha'u'llah
#63. In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
Baha'u'llah
#64. Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.
Baha'u'llah
#65. Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command I made thee to appear, and have ordained for thy training every atom of existence and the essence of all created things.
Baha'u'llah
#66. I've lived in Egypt among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia.
Nawal El Saadawi
#67. Thou art My light and My light shall never be extinguished; why dost thou dread extinction? Thou art My glory and My glory shall fadeth not; thou art My robe and My robe shall never be outworn.
Baha'u'llah
#68. The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
Baha'u'llah
#69. O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.
Baha'u'llah
#70. In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
Baha'u'llah
#71. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#72. The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.
Baha'i International Community
#73. Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
Abdu'l- Baha
#74. Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds ...
Abdu'l- Baha
