Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
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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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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
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Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!
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Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.
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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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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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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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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
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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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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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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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Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.
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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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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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Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!
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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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The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
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Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.