Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
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A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...
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Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
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A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
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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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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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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
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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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Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.
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I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
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Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
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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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Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.
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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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Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.
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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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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.
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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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Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.
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It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.
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Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world
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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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The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.