Whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
ABDU'L-BAHAOr to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you – and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.
More Abdu'l-Baha Quotes
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Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.
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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
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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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The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all!
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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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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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Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come.
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Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
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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.
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Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
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It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition
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Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world.
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The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
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The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
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