The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.
ABDU'L-BAHAAmong the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.
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At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites.
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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.
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Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love
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Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul.
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No harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.
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Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
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In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
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We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare.
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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.
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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.
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This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or ceases to exist
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Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.
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This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both
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All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come
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Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness.
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