The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward.
ABDU'L-BAHAThe rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows.
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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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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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Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit
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These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him
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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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If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.
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The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
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His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
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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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All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come
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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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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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In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.
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Just as he prepared himself in the world of the matrix by acquiring forces necessary in this sphere of existence, so, likewise, the indispensable forces of the divine existence must be potentially attained in this world.
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To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence.
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