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.
ABDU'L-BAHAHe who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.
More Abdu'l-Baha Quotes
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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.
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New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
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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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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.
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If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.
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If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
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Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
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If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.
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Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
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I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.
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Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful.
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This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or ceases to exist
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Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful.
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The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, … grows and develops through the animal spirit.
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Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
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