If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
ABDU'L-BAHAOne must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race.
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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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Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
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The home of Religion is the heart.
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But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.
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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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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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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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Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world
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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.
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His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
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The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.
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Or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you – and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.
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Be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.
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