There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.
ABDU'L-BAHAThe 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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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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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.
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Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul.
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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.
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If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.
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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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The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion.
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Let’s be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let’s make of our lips a censer of the virtues.
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If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.
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Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicit
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Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness.
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In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love
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For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity
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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.
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New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
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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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Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
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Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world
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Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions
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The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust,
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Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful.
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To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.
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The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance.
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Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
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If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.
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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.
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