Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes

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• Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

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  Prayer, Blessed, Sacrifice

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• The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

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  Trust, Perfect, Diversity

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• Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

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  Strong, Grateful, Heart

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• Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.

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  Love, Tolerance, Triumph

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• To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.

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  Love, Religious, Peace

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• Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love

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  Heart, Light, Flames

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• I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.

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  Order, Laughing, Baha

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• Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.

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  Stars, Reflection, Light

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• What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort.

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  Race, Talking, Practice

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• One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task............ .....Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.

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  Race, People, Tasks

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• Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth to spirituality, and bring light and life to every soul. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it would be better to be without it... Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion.

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  War, Heart, Light

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• Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.

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  Too Much, Baha, Trouble

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• In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.

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  Powerful, World, Existence

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• If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  "When a Thought of War Comes, Oppose It By a Stronger Thought of Peace: Baha’i Inspiration Amidst Disunity" by Homa Sabet Tavangar, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

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  Life, Men, Quality

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• Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

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  Comfort, Baha, Hardship

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• Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

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  Heart, Dark, Light

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• May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one garden in order that through you the oneness of humanity may establish its temple in the world of mankind, for you are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.

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  Uplifting, Stars, Commitment

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• The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.

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  Heart, Littles, Intellect

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• It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

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  Spiritual, Laughter, Laughing

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• If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.

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  Hatred, Baha, Division

  "Religious, Not Just Spiritual" by Laura Weinberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

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  Light, Flames, Order

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• An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.

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  Powerful, Inspiration, Humble

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• The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and superstitions may end.

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  Oneness, Humanity, May

  "The Titanic’s Forgotten 'Survivor'” by Rainn Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

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  Wings, Giving, Joy

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