Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful,
ABDU'L-BAHAWhen the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance.
More Abdu'l-Baha Quotes
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Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes.
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To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.
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The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust,
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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.
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Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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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.
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To speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.
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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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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
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I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.
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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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It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
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He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.
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In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
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What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal?
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