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If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

Abdu'l-Baha

A man may be a Bah’ in name only. If he is a Bah’ in reality, his deeds and actions will be decisive proofs of it.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Decisive Man Men Oneness Proof Reality
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Advance Affair Book Life Man Mind Suffering Tribulation Wordly
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Guilty Heavier Innocent Rest Sacrifice Suffer Talent Time
The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Body Healing Human Oneness Remedy Sick Spiritual World
The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
ABDU'L-BAHA

Error God Guidance Identical Ignorance Knowledge Real
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
Let us join together to hasten forward the Divine Cause of unity, until all humanity knows itself to be one family, joined together in love.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Divine Humanity Love Together
By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Fasting Hygiene Physician Pill Powder Prayer Reached State
If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Dart Honey Live Milk Poison Return Soul
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection
The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Avail Good Heart Intellect Little Servant
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.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Born Confirmation Genius Gift Men Pain Power Spirit
There is no contradiction between true religion and science
ABDU'L-BAHA

Contradiction Religion Science True
And it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Condition Greater Grieve Movement Passage Perfection Traverse
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, … grows and develops through the animal spirit.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Animal Book Bounty Develop Human LIkened Man Mirror Shining Spirit Sun
You are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Among Called Earth Nation One Unity Uplift

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