“Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.”

Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

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.

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

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

The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.

In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted, more receptive, her intuition is more intense.

The supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it… Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.

There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.

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.

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.

If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.