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He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.

Abdu'l-Baha

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.
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Affection Character Cordial Excercise Exercise Marriage Party Union
Attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.
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Attainment Conductive God Human Knowledge Welfare
Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals
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Age Ageless Civilization Element Feminine Masculine New
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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Dogmatic End Humanity May Oneness Superstitions
The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
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Error God Guidance Identical Ignorance Knowledge Real
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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Cold Flame Heart Hopeless Lifeless Light Sorrowful
Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world.
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Desire Encircle Filled Harmony Heart Strenuous Tranquility World
When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance.
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Bring Deeply Dive Meaning Minded Ocean Pearl Sacrifice Spiritually Surface
The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
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Away Cut Cutting Entirely Heart Pure Self
They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.
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Accept Acquiescence Life Man Radiant Woman
And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate
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Effort Entirely Fundamental God Law Past Principle Sun
In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.
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Intense Intuition Man Men More Respect Tender
One 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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Human People Praise Race Task Whole Worthy
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful,
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Blessed Depressed Mood Prayer Sacrifice Slave
The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and Bahá’u’lláh, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.
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Concourse Faithful Jesus Presence Soul Supreme Sustained
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
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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Animal Book Bounty Develop Human LIkened Man Mirror Shining Spirit Sun
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.
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Existence Magnet More Powerful World
Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions
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Body Confined Country Distance Earth Man Mind Observe Small Span Travel
The more ye persevere in this most important task, the more will ye witness the confirmations of God, to such a degree that ye yourselves will be astonished.
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Astonished Confirmation Degree Important More Most Persevere Task
Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities.
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Degree Emerged Former Humanity Imbued Men Perfection Power Virtue
He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.
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Divine Educated Lead Receive Same Spirit
The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
Let us join together to hasten forward the Divine Cause of unity, until all humanity knows itself to be one family, joined together in love.
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Divine Humanity Love Together
This is destined to come about. In the same way, in the character, the conduct and the manners of men, universal modifications will be made.
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Character Destined Modification Same Universal
A love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.
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Aboundeth Away Barrier Deliverance Large Peace Spirit Sweep Tolerance

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