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.
ABDU'L-BAHAOr 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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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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Illnesses which occur because of physical causes should be treated by doctors with medical remedies; those which are due to spiritual causes disappear through spiritual means. contradictory.
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By nothing,under no conditions, be ye perturbed.
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The woman has greater moral courage than the man; she has also special gifts which enable her to govern in moments of danger and crisis. If necessary she can become a warrior.
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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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The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. … so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.
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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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It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition
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When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.
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A man may be a Bah’ in name only. If he is a Bah’ in reality, his deeds and actions will be decisive proofs of it.
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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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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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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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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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To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
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