Tablet catalog
29221 in total
ABU 3050‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to M. R. Shirazi in April 1914
50 words
One can worship God everywhere, and if only the Christians would go to Moslem mosques and Jewish Synagogues, similarly if the Mahomedans would go to the church
ABU 3051‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken in a private home in Chelsea, Sep. 1911
50 words
All art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet
ABU 3052‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Madame Scaramuchi, spoken on 1913-02-20
50 words
The Cause of Bahá'u'lláh is the same as the Cause of Christ. For example this room is now lighted, but someone comes in and turns off the light
ABU 3053‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1914-02-27 in Haifa
50 words
The Kingdom of God is like into this garden. It contains many kind of trees. In due season the trees must not only produce leaves and blossoms
ABU 3054‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905
50 words
Giving up everything in the Cause of God and following His Will no matter where it leads. We must not have desire for anything else but God.
ABU 3055‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Ali Kuli Khan, spoken on 1906-06-09
50 words
If a man is not happy in his life, death is better than such a life. True joy comes from the tranquility of [the] heart, and this state comes from faith!
ABU 3056‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10
50 words
Consider with what knowledge His holiness Bahá'u'lláh hath favored the Bahá'ís, that if they are given the whole world they will not deny Christ. They love Christ better than their own lives.
ABU 3057‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21
50 words
They teach that the internal, spiritual idea is the same in all the religions; that a unique general plan underlies the foundation of the past faiths
ABU 3058‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken ca. 1916
50 words
If you have a bed of lilies-of-the-valley that you love and tenderly care for, they cannot see you, nor can they understand your care
ABU 3059‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Marie Watson et al in Aug. 1921
50 words
Tests are not sent as punishment, but to reveal the soul to itself. Suffering unfolds both the strength and the weakness.
ABU 3060‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to George Winterburn et al, spoken on 1904-02-07
50 words
Through the bounty and favor of God think nothing difficult or impossible. God is so bountiful that He brings fire out from the stone
ABU 3061‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-12-30
50 words
If a man lives a thousand years or achieves the most wonderful service, this does not avail him. If he becomes the most famous man in the world
ABU 3062‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mary MacNutt et al in 1904
50 words
I wish you to become heralds of happiness, because happiness is the cause of progress and development. The appearance of the Manifestations is to bring happiness
ABU 3063‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Anna Watson spoken around 1904-10-18
50 words
I will see what I can do. Finding one, I told him to stay until I brought others to him
ABU 3064‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23
50 words
There is either a standstill or a progression. There could not be a descent, upon the same principle that a man could not become a babe again.
ABU 3065‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mr Kinney, spoken on 1909-07-02
50 words
There are two ways of taking pictures. These things about here that you have pictured will all pass away, but the true picture is the one you take on the mirror of the heart.
ABU 3066‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken in Feb. 1910
50 words
Both are one. Sometimes it is called heart and sometimes mind: but mind is of two kinds; one is a worldly mind which seeks the livelihood
ABU 3067‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken ca. 1911
50 words
You will retain your individuality and will not be swallowed up in one vast spirit. Concerning the condition of the human soul ...It is exclusively luminous; it has no body; it is a dazzling pencil of light; it is a celestial orb of brightness
ABU 3068‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Takeshi Kanno, spoken on 1912-10-21
50 words
The war between Japan and Russia came about after the departure of Bahá'u'lláh, but before these events occurred Bahá'u'lláh often mentioned kindly the name of the Mikado
ABU 3069‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken ca. 1913, from Mahmud's diary
50 words
I see the people ... like bees or ants, coming and going by troops, surging past like waves, continually engrossed in their business.
ABU 3070‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Prayer spoken at children's dinner, Cannongate School in Edinburgh, ca. 1913-01-09
50 words
O Thou Kind God! These beloved children are created by Thy Mighty Hand. They are the signs of Thy Omnipotence.
ABU 3071‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-07
50 words
Nineteen days are according to 19 Letters of the Living which is composed of the Báb and 18 disciples. The aim of this feast
ABU 3072‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to two actors, spoken on 1913-04-02
50 words
The plays should endeavor to elevate the ideals of humanity and not degrade them. The theatre is like unto a school and the playwrights must ever think how to educate his audience
ABU 3073‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken over lunch on 1913-04-03
50 words
I dreamed I was in Tiberias. Along the shore I was living alone in a small cottage which was built with mud bricks