Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
BAHA'U'LLAHBeautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
More Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
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Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!
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Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.
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Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
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O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men.
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Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.
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All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
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Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind…
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Regard ye the world as a man’s body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
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Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
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O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.
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Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.
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The world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind’s ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System – the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.
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Should the fragrance of Thy praise be shed abroad by any of the divers tongues of the world, out of the East or out of the West, it would, verily, be prized and greatly cherished.
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The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
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In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.
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It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
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Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
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Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
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O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.
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The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
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Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
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Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
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The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
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Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
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In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
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O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.
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