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The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

Abdu'l-Baha

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
ABDU'L-BAHA

Divine Judgement Man Measure Simply Spirit Standard
I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Angel Beg Bringer God Heaven Joy
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
Man’s intelligence is greater, spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the religions of the world will be at peace.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Beginning Greater Intelligence Man Peace Spirituality
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
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
ABDU'L-BAHA

Blessed Fire Fruit God Knowledge Science Tree
Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
ABDU'L-BAHA

Age Ageless Civilization Element Feminine Masculine New
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection
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
Help along one another’s projects and plans.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Along Helping Plan Project
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Light Lips Make Silence Strong Wind Wise
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Affair Important Mass Ordinary People Problem Uninformed
Happiness is a great healer to those who are ill….This has a greater effect than the remedy itself. You must always have this thought of love and affection when you visit the ailing and afflicted.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Great Happiness Healer Remedy
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
The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies
ABDU'L-BAHA

Body Die Doe Need Soul Spirit
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Behold Candle Drop Flames Order Life Light Order Weep

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