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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.

Abdu'l-Baha

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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dogmatic End Humanity May Oneness Superstitions
Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Affair Important Mass Ordinary People Problem Uninformed
Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Employment Fighting Force Heart Men Oppressed Right
The home of Religion is the heart.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Heart Home Religion
Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained here.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Beyond Book Kingdom Must Obtained Need World
But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Alertness Balance Force Losing Mental Quality Service Shifting Spiritual
Let’s be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let’s make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Light Lips Make Silence Strong Wind Wise
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Courage Crisis Danger Moment Woman
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Conjoining Heart Humanity Importance Love Mankind Philosophy Unity
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-BAHA

Art Diversity Family Human Music Perfect Together Trust
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
ABDU'L-BAHA

Blessed Fire Fruit God Knowledge Science Tree
Is the people’s lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Fact Lack People Religious Uneducated
His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
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Account Effort Exerted Law Past Render
Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
ABDU'L-BAHA

Divine Judgement Man Measure Simply Spirit Standard
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
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Body Die Doe Need Soul Spirit
No harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Bounty Discovery Everlasting Happen Harm Sun

Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.

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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end.

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