Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Collection: Friendship
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.Collection: Superstitions
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.Collection: Teamwork
In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.Collection: Heart
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.Collection: Home
Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the worldCollection: World
Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.Collection: Fear
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.Collection: Self
A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.Collection: Thank You
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.Collection: Soul
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.Collection: Peace
That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race. The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.Collection: Country
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.Collection: Country
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...Collection: Heart
Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.Collection: Grieving
The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.Collection: Country
The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.Collection: Essence
All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.Collection: Brother
Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...Collection: Country
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.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Blessed
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.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Educational
The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: Adversity
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.Collection: Love
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.Collection: Evil
The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.Collection: World
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Uplifting
Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.Collection: Sacrifice
O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.Collection: Son
O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.Collection: Unity
O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.Collection: Justice
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.Collection: Heart
Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.Collection: Heart
Man is even as steel, the essence of which is hidden: through admonition and explanation, good counsel and education, that essence will be brought to light. If, however, he be allowed to remain in his original condition, the corrosion of lusts and appetites will effectively destroy him.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Children
Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Art
Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light!Collection: Light
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.Collection: Speak No Evil
The True Seeker must, before all else, cleanse his heart.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Country
The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.Collection: Heart
Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.Collection: Age
The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.Collection: Desire
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.Collection: Honesty
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.Collection: Noble
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The one is irrevocable, the other is, as termed by men, impending. To the former all must unreservedly submit, inasmuch as it is fixed and settled. God however, is able to alter or repeal it. As the harm that must result from such a change will be greater than if the decree had remained unaltered, all, therefore, should willingly acquiesce in what God hath willed and confidently abide by the same.Collection: Book