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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.

Abdu'l-Baha

Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind
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Foundation Mankind Truthfulness Virtue
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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Divine Judgement Man Measure Simply Spirit Standard
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
No harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.
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Bounty Discovery Everlasting Happen Harm Sun
The faithful are ever sustained by the presence of the Supreme Concourse. In the Supreme Concourse are Jesus, and Moses, and Elijah, and Bahá’u’lláh, and other supreme Souls: there, also, are the martyrs.
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Concourse Faithful Jesus Presence Soul Supreme Sustained
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicit
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Baha Circumstance Comfort Contentedly Felicit Gratification Hardship Heath
Whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
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Despairing Materialism Progress Science Slough Wall Wing
Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul.
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Birth Face Heart Light Religion Spirituality Unite War
Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.
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Attainment Happiness Perfection Spiritual
Love everybody, serve everybody.
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Everybody Humanity Serve
If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.
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Desire Friendship Heart Inspirational Positive Race Spiritual
We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.
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Absence Cause Disintegration Existence Love Phenomena
The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Decline Fall Ignorance People Principal Reason
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
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 not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful,
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Blessed Depressed Mood Prayer Sacrifice Slave

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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