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My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.

Abdu'l-Baha

Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.
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Deeds Baha Race Religion Sincere True
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Clouded Giving Influence Intellect Joy Keener Strength Time Understanding Vital Wing
Thus an illness caused by affliction, fear, nervous impressions, will be healed more effectively by spiritual rather than physical treatment. Hence, both kinds of treatment should be followed; they are not.
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Caused Illness Impression Nervous Treatment
If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Forget Good Life Man Qualities Quality
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.
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Baha Become Dislike Division Hatred Religion
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.
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Conflict Contention Permitted Sacred Wise
The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
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Error God Guidance Identical Ignorance Knowledge Real
Or 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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Guilty Heavier Innocent Rest Sacrifice Suffer Talent Time
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
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Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection
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.
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Conjoining Heart Humanity Importance Love Mankind Philosophy Unity
Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.
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Creature Endowment God Human Individual Responsibility
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
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Blessed Fire Fruit God Knowledge Science Tree
If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.
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Belief Contrary Found Imagination Opinion Religious Science Superstition
We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.
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Accurate Concentrate Happiness Humanity Strive

My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.

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