Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
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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 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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Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.
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Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world
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My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
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Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.
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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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O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.
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The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies.
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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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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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The Bahá´í Faith is consolation for humanity.
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The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.
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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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The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.
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Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.
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This is the Day in which God's most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things. It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.
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Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
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O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.
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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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The True Seeker must, before all else, cleanse his heart.
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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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Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.
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In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.