Baha I Quotes

• 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.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  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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• 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.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Uplifting, Art, Educational

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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.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Adversity, Friendly, Faces

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• The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Peace, Kindness

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.

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• 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.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Soul, Age, Needs

  "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.

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• To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Real, Ignorance, Mean

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• When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Heart, Baha

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• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Adversity, Baha, Prosperity

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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.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Religious, Peace

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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.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Strong, Grateful, Heart

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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.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Educational, Men, Baha

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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.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Age, Needs, Baha

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• A thought of #hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of #love.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Powerful, Hatred, Baha

  "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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• Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Unique, Law

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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.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Order, Laughing, Baha

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

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Laughter, Laughing

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• Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Hatred, Baha, Division

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

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• 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.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Son, Baha

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• Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Soul, Age, Baha

  "Proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, reference.bahai.org. 1978.

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• I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

  Rainn Wilson

  Stars, Baha, Bigs

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• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Tv Shows, Baha

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• When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

  Cass McCombs

  Baha, Taught, Used

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I wasn't happier. I was like "Wow, there is an unease inside of me." And that led me back on my kind of more spiritual path to the Baha'i faith in a new and fresher way and I came to also understand at that point that there was no difference between being devout and being an artist. There is no difference between creativity and spirituality and philosophy and that is what Soul Pancake, the book, and SoulPancake.com are about is: it's all about human expression and it's about seeking to transcend.

  Rainn Wilson

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Book

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  Rainn Wilson

  Laughing, People, Giving

  "Rainn Wilson talks about Hollywood, his family and the Baha'i Faith". U.S. Baha'i News Interview, news.bahai.org. May 24, 2007.

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