If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
ABDU'L-BAHADivine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven.
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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.
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Love everybody, serve everybody.
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If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task.hus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.
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If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.
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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.
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New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
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The home of Religion is the heart.
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By nothing,under no conditions, be ye perturbed.
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The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.
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The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.
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Attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.
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But to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.
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The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
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Whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
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