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Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities.

Abdu'l-Baha

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
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Attain Happiness Joy Sacrifice Self State Temporal True Vanish
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being…until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
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Baha Change Duty Exceedingly God Man Men World
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
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Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection
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
I want you to be happy…to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
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Baha Happy Laugh Laughing Made Order Rejoice You
If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.
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Commit Error Forgive Forgiving Instantly Wrong
By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.
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Demonstrate Economic Equation She Social
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.
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Employment Fighting Force Heart Men Oppressed Right
Man is under all conditons immersed in a sea of God’s blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope
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Blessing Circumstance Condition Firm God Hopeless Immersed Man Men Sea
The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind.
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Aggressive Boh Forceful Man Past Qualities Reason Spiritual Strong
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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Comfort Endow God Humanity Justice Member Order Servant Soul
God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
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God Human Kind Should Unjust Unkind
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
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal?
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Agreeing Friendship Good Human Ideal Practice Profit Race Talking Universal
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
Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come.
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Expressed Heavenly Ocean Parable Spiritual Teaching Understood

Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities.

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Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities.

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