One must always use the simplest and most direct words, that the meaning may be easily conveyed to the minds of the hearers. In writing, we must use the same style

Youthfulness depends upon the heart and spirit and not upon the physical body of man. You may find often a young man who may look a thousand years old.

Be firm in the West! Let the foundation principles of this Truth become deep-rooted. Hold fast until the fullness of Reality comes to you.

The House of Justice is so mighty an organization that no one shall have the right to resist or oppose it. By that is meant the Universal House of Justice.

A wise man must adapt himself as quickly as possible to every environment. If he is disgruntled and complains he will make his life miserable

Vanity is a form of egotism, an excessive desire for notice of approval of one's personal appearance or deeds. It is self-conceit and self-hypnotization.

The spirit results from the union of body and soul; this spirit becomes immortal, always remaining with the soul and forming for it, after death, a sort of ethereal body. There is a human spirit and a divine spirit

Did this occur when both were in service for the Cause?... Two human beings may live side by side, may be closely related, and yet be very far apart. Their souls may never meet. And two souls may be attracted instantly

See how the enemies of Christ persecuted and crucified Him, yet He loved them all. Man is like a tree. The tree lives to produce fruit. The fruit of man is love.

The Cause of God is like unto a house. As long as man has not entered therein he does not know what it contains.

It does not mean that Christ shall stand in person and speak with kings and princes.

The abomination of desolation is the one who appears and tries to destroy the Truth and who makes some changes in the teachings of God.

Teach them as the truths contained in their own religion... It is your sufferings and your faith in God which have brought you to the true spiritual insight

The Blessed Perfection has revealed a Tablet called 'Tablet of the Spiritual World.' All who read it are filled with an anxious desire to leave this world

You are near to God, and day by day you will progress by the knowledge of God toward spiritual joy. Then you will be a source of guidance to others.

Though I had not time to answer all the letters you brought from your cities, you are the true letters that I send unto them as answer. For there are two kinds of letters

It is not a duty incumbent upon them; it is not obligatory, but if they have no special demand upon their time, the believers must be present at the meetings.... In such meetings, that is to say, the meetings which are open to the public

Our real happiness is in the Kingdom. Here we seek no happiness, because in this world happiness does not exist. If you consider, you will see that people are in trouble.

In this prayer we have just read, Bahá'u'lláh meant Abdul-Hamid, the Turkish Sultan who has lately been dethroned.

Others are passing from an immortal to a mortal kingdom, but the Bahá'ís are journeying, in the Ark of the Covenant, from a mortal to an immortal world.

to many people the great Pyramid was the most to be admired structure in Egypt, but to him it had always produced an unpleasing impression, for it recalled to his mind the intense suffering of the thousands of slaves

Prophets do not comprehend the God Essence. To comprehend the Sun of Reality we would have to be greater (than the Sun)... The Mirror of the Prophet cannot expand sufficiently to comprehend the Infinite.

It has been revealed in the Teachings that work is worship, but this does not mean that worship and the prescribed mentionings of God should be abandoned

In the world of man love is the brightness of the beauty of God. If there be no love, this is the animal's kingdom