Tablet catalog
29221 in total
ABU 2612‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to the minister of the New Congregational Church, spoken on 1913-01-13
80 words
I am only a servant of God. The station of servitude is very great. It is very difficult for any one to live in accord with the requirements of servitude
ABU 2613‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-01-23 in Paris
80 words
The Parisian people are submerged in a sea of materialism. They are intoxicated with the wine of desire and selfish appetites. They think these material objects are permanent.
ABU 2614‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-09
80 words
How pitiful it is that man is satisfied with material things and so regulates his life as to gain more and more!
ABU 2615‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-16
80 words
How large is the creation of God! How stupendous His machinery! How infinite His dominion!... Were it possible to construct an aeroplane and establish communication between the various planets many marvellous discoveries would have been achieved!
ABU 2616‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Public address given on 1913-02-17
80 words
This is the work. All else save this has no result. Humanity must become illumined with the light of the Kingdom, otherwise all our efforts will remain fruitless.
ABU 2617‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mrs. Henlay, spoken on 1913-02-18
80 words
Whenever you feel depressed, go alone into the secret chamber, read one of the Hidden Words and with the utmost supplication
ABU 2618‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-01
80 words
For the present, in Paris we are all engaged in mentioning the name of the True One. We are all beneath the protection of the Blessed Perfection.
ABU 2619‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-15
80 words
There are three ancient Bibles. 1st the Jewish Bible. 2nd the Sanhedrin Bible which was translated by the seventy wisest Rabbis into Greek at the time of Ptolemy. 3rd the Samaritan Bible.
ABU 2620‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mr Eckstein, spoken on 1913-04-05
80 words
A thirsty man will run after every fountain, he may drink bitter and stagnant water but at last he will reach to the sweet spring.
ABU 2621‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to a woman questioner, spoken on 1913-04-22
80 words
You must enter in the Kingdom of Abha. In the Kingdom of Abha, there is light upon light. The darkness of sorrow and pain is banished forever
ABU 2622‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to a singer, spoken on 1913-05-26
80 words
Are you progressing in your art? The heavenly song is good. It is my hope that you may sing that song. When we left America on the steamer Celtic, there were several musicians and singers.
ABU 2623‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Farewell words to the friends, spoken on 1913-06-08
80 words
I love the believers of Paris, not the walls and the houses. The walls do not protect one from his ego. One must become the embodiment of divine love.
ABU 2624‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-08-17 in Ramleh
80 words
Some people are like unto the spiders. The more you tear to pieces their webs of imaginations and imitations, the greater will become their zeal to spin them again.
ABU 2625‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-10-24 in Ramleh
80 words
...in every dispensation three persons are mentioned. In the Mosaic dispensation there was Jehovah, the burning bush and Moses.
ABU 2626‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-10-24 in Ramleh
80 words
I hope you will read the newspaper of the Kingdom of Abha, the articles of which are the ideals of God. This newspaper will perish
ABU 2627‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21
80 words
The objective aims are: The oneness of the world of humanity
ABU 2628‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1914-07-27 in Haifa
80 words
The supreme concern of any government must be the establishment of equal justice and equal opportunity amongst its citizens.
ABU 2629‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1914-07-27 in Haifa
80 words
What does a man lose if he should lose his self? His moral credit will be larger than his debit.
ABU 2630‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-18
80 words
This world is like unto a theatre on the stage of which all kinds of drama, plays, tragedies, comedies and operas are presented
ABU 2631‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-05
80 words
The American women as a whole are better educated, more well-informed on classical as well as current subject and the spreaders of the right ideals of education.
ABU 2632‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mirza Fazlollah Khan, spoken on 1915-01-29
80 words
All their theories and opinions have been useless and without result. They have made a trial of this, still they are not warned. They start in words and end in words. Their whole system of philosophy is based on speculations
ABU 2633‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-01-30
80 words
This is the first German house built in Haifa by the leader of the colony, called Hirtik, who came here in 1870 with about 500 people
ABU 2634‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-22
80 words
It is very strange indeed how many particulars of my earliest childhood always stick to my memory. I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old there was a very poor old man in our street
ABU 2635‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to the governor of Akka and others, spoken on 1915-04-02
80 words
the Beloved gave a detailed and stirring account of the history of Akka from the time it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104 A.D... I have no doubt that had he the inclination and desire he could write a most instructive history of this ancient and sacred town.