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If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.

Abdu'l-Baha

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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Advance Affair Book Life Man Mind Suffering Tribulation Wordly
Be ye doctor and nurse to the ailing; promote ye friendship, and honour, and conciliation, and devotion to God, in this world of non-existence.
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Ailing Conciliation Devotion Doctor Friendship God Honour Nurse Promote
Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes.
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Conquer Foe Love Melt Opposition Tolerance Triumph
I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
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Beseech Bloodshed Cease Friendship Love Mine Peace Prayer Unity War
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-BAHA

Educational Fall Ignorance Promotion Prosperity Success Urgent
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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Animal Ignorance Intelligence Knowledge Mean Real Science
The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it…. Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.
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Assured Beauty Breathing Christ Disappeared Existence Rest Spiritual World
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
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
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
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains.
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Born Confirmation Genius Gift Men Pain Power Spirit
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
There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.
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God Greater Mind Pleasure Spiritual Study Word
Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
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Destroyer Happiness Human Kind Prejudice Welfare
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

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