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
ABDU'L-BAHA
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Abdu'l-Baha172 quotes“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.”
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Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.
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Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity
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Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha …knowledge is the cause of human progress.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha 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.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition.Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
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