But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy.
ABDU'L-BAHAJoy 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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Bahá’í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other’s character.
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Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind
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Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world.
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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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Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained here.
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These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him
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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.
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I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.
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The greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error
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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.
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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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There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.
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There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart.
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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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To speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.
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