Top 100 Baha'is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#3. 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
Abdu'l- Baha
#4. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#5. In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.
Baha'u'llah
#6. Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
Abdu'l- Baha
#7. 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
#8. Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind
Abdu'l- Baha
#9. It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.
Abdu'l- Baha
#10. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#11. The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.
Baha'u'llah
#12. 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
#13. The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
Baha'u'llah
#14. The source of all glory is acceptance of whatsoever the Lord hath bestowed, and contentment with that which God hath ordained.
Baha'u'llah
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah
#18. The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
Baha'u'llah
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. There is no contradiction between true religion and science
Abdu'l- Baha
#25. When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.
Abdu'l- Baha
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#29. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#30. O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.
Baha'u'llah
#31. I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
Rainn Wilson
#32. It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
Baha'u'llah
#33. Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.
Baha'u'llah
#34. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#35. A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding.
Baha'u'llah
#36. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#37. It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being ... until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
Abdu'l- Baha
#38. We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened ... what harm is there in this? ... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
Baha'u'llah
#39. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#40. 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
#41. To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
Abdu'l- Baha
#42. 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.
Abdu'l- Baha
#43. Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.
Abdu'l- Baha
#44. Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
Abdu'l- Baha
#45. My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
Baha'u'llah
#46. O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.
Baha'u'llah
#47. Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.
Baha'u'llah
#48. 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!
Abdu'l- Baha
#49. 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
#50. In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.
Abdu'l- Baha
#51. Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
Abdu'l- Baha
#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. 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
#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. 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
#78. 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
#79. Earth is but one country and mankind is it's citizens.
Baha'u'llah
#80. Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
Abdu'l- Baha
#81. 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
#82. The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
Abdu'l- Baha
#83. Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.
Baha'u'llah
#84. 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
#85. A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
Baha'u'llah
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself.
Baha'u'llah
#90. 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
#91. The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds
Baha'u'llah
#92. My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.
Abdu'l- Baha
#93. 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
#94. Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form/When within thee the universe is folded?Baha'u'llah
Baha'u'llah
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds ...
Abdu'l- Baha
#98. In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
Baha'u'llah
#100. 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
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