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What are the requirements? Love for mankind, sincerity toward all, reflecting the oneness of the world of humanity, philanthropy, becoming enkindled with the fire of the love of God

Abdu'l-Baha

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Educational Fall Ignorance Promotion Prosperity Success Urgent
Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.
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Creature Endowment God Human Individual Responsibility
There is no contradiction between true religion and science
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Contradiction Religion Science True
You are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.
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Among Called Earth Nation One Unity Uplift
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
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Fall Hand Human Intelligence Man Men Progress Religion Science Soar Wing
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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Desire Friendship Heart Inspirational Positive Race Spiritual
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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Ailing Conciliation Devotion Doctor Friendship God Honour Nurse Promote
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.
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Art Diversity Family Human Music Perfect Together Trust
The home of Religion is the heart.
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Heart Home Religion
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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Blessed Fire Fruit God Knowledge Science Tree
If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
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Advanced Agreement Family Illumined Manifest Spiritual
An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration.
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Humble Inspiration Learning Man Powerful Profound Scholar Spirit
Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not.
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Caused Illness Impression Nervous Treatment
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
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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Animal Body Force Man Material Partner Reality
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-BAHA

Born Confirmation Genius Gift Men Pain Power Spirit

What are the requirements? Love for mankind, sincerity toward all, reflecting the oneness of the world of humanity, philanthropy, becoming enkindled with the fire of the love of God

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