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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

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

Beseech Bloodshed Cease Friendship Love Mine Peace Prayer Unity War
Bahá’í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other’s character.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Affection Character Cordial Excercise Exercise Marriage Party Union
Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dark Filled Heart Light Shout Strive Voice
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Courage Crisis Danger Moment Woman
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dignity Divine Eye Eyes Heart Heaven Respected Right Sex Superior
But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Alertness Balance Force Losing Mental Quality Service Shifting Spiritual
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

Absence Cause Disintegration Existence Love Phenomena
Never is it the wish of `Abdu’l-Bahá to see any being hurt, nor will He make anyone to grieve; for man can receive no greater gift than this, that he rejoice another’s heart.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Angel Anymore Gift Greater Grieve Heart Hurt Recieve Wish
The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Brain Courage Man Moral Proved Superiority Warrior Woman
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and Bahá’u’lláh, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Concourse Faithful Jesus Presence Soul Supreme Sustained
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Art Beautiful Harmonies Holy Light Mind Musician Spirit
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Desire Friendship Heart Inspirational Positive Race Spiritual
You are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Among Called Earth Nation One Unity Uplift
Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Always Nothing Time Trouble
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Conflict Contention Permitted Sacred Wise

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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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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