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It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition

Abdu'l-Baha

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
ABDU'L-BAHA

Body Die Doe Need Soul Spirit
Be ye a refuge to the fearful; bring ye rest and peace to the disturbed; make ye a provision for the destitute; be a treasury of riches for the poor; be a healing medicine for those who suffer pain
ABDU'L-BAHA

Fearful Healing Medicine Pain Peace Poor Provision Refuge Treasury
Is the people’s lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
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Fact Lack People Religious Uneducated
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Angel Anymore Gift Greater Grieve Heart Hurt Recieve Wish
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Attain Happiness Joy Sacrifice Self State Temporal True Vanish
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
If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
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Advanced Agreement Family Illumined Manifest Spiritual
Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Desire Encircle Filled Harmony Heart Strenuous Tranquility World
If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task.hus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Excel Fail Fault Formidable Incumbent Look People Standpoint Task
All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come
ABDU'L-BAHA

Ages Blood Down Greater Intelligence Light Man
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress.
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Fall Hand Human Intelligence Man Men Progress Religion Science Soar Wing
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Better Cause Dislike Division Hatred Religion Unity Without
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
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words – these alone are without effect.
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Alone Deed Effect Manifest Reality
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Baha Change Duty Exceedingly God Man Men World
To find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainmen
ABDU'L-BAHA

Attainment Intellectual Known People Throughout World Young

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