Top 100 Baha'ar Quotes
#1. Baha'ar," he began, his voice soft; grave. "Do not die so far away from the sea.
Alexandra Bracken
#2. Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.
Baha'u'llah
#3. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words.
Baha'u'llah
#4. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#5. Be patient under all conditions and place your whole trust and confidence in God.
Baha'u'llah
#6. If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations
Abdu'l- Baha
#7. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#8. Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst pride abaseth him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation.
Baha'u'llah
#9. A might force, a consummate power lieth concealed in the world of being. Fix your gaze upon it and upon its unifying influences, and not upon the differences which appear from it.
Baha'u'llah
#10. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#11. There is no contradiction between true religion and science
Abdu'l- Baha
#12. The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
Baha'u'llah
#13. When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.
Abdu'l- Baha
#14. Arts crafts and sciences uplift the world of being and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
Baha'u'llah
#15. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#16. 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
#17. Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself.
Baha'u'llah
#18. 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
#19. Earth is but one country and mankind is it's citizens.
Baha'u'llah
#21. Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
Abdu'l- Baha
#22. 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
#23. The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Abdu'l- Baha
#24. Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
Baha'u'llah
#25. Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.
Baha'u'llah
#26. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it ...
Abdu'l- Baha
#27. Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world
Baha'u'llah
#28. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#29. The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Baha'u'llah
#30. Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.
Baha'u'llah
#31. 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
#32. Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!
Baha'u'llah
#33. The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
Baha'u'llah
#34. I want you to be happy ... to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
Abdu'l- Baha
#35. Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.
Abdu'l- Baha
#36. The source of all glory is acceptance of whatsoever the Lord hath bestowed, and contentment with that which God hath ordained.
Baha'u'llah
#37. O SON OF LIGHT! Forget all save Me and commune with My spirit. This is of the essence of My command, therefore turn unto it.
Baha'u'llah
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#42. Every created thing in the whole universe is but a door leading into His knowledge, a sign of His sovereignty, a revelation of His names, a symbol of His majesty, a token of His power, a means of admittance into His straight Path ...
Baha'u'llah
#43. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#44. Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah
#45. Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City ...
Baha'u'llah
#46. The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
Baha'u'llah
#47. Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
Baha'u'llah
#48. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#49. The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
Baha'u'llah
#50. 210. "Experiences do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by Divine Mercy for our own perfection." ~
Abdu'l- Baha
#51. Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
Baha'u'llah
#52. Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.
Baha'u'llah
#53. 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
#54. In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
Baha'u'llah
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
Abdu'l- Baha
#59. When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.
Abdu'l- Baha
#60. If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
Abdu'l- Baha
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.
Abdu'l- Baha
#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. 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
#67. 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
#68. In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
Abdu'l- Baha
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
Abdu'l- Baha
#76. The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.
Baha'u'llah
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds
Baha'u'llah
#84. My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.
Abdu'l- Baha
#85. 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
#86. Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form/When within thee the universe is folded?Baha'u'llah
Baha'u'llah
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
Baha'u'llah
#90. 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
#91. Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds ...
Abdu'l- Baha
#92. Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
Abdu'l- Baha
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
Baha'u'llah
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
