Praise be to God! Your hearts are overflowing with the love of God and you have no great attachment to this world.

The prayerful attitude is attained by two means. Just as a man who is going to deliver a lecture prepares therefor

I love you all, you are the children of the Kingdom, and you are accepted of God.

...translate at least one page every day, either from English into Persian, or from Persian into English, thus they might acquire efficiency in this line of work. He recommended for the future that when the means are provided, a committee of translators be organized from both nationalities, who would know the two languages well, in addition to Arabic. Then the Tablets would be properly translated.

It is not your work but that of the Holy Spirit which you breathe forth through the Word.

I am the servant of Baha'o'llah and nothing more; Abdu'l-Baha is the sum of all perfections

I know it; I think a great deal of it. I know that their desire is to serve mankind. I thank this noble Society

We know a violator, Abdu'l-Baha says, as we know a donkey when we see him, because violation of the Covenant, he says has a pungent odor

...in like manner, when the sincere purposes and the justice of the sovereign, the knowledge and perfect political efficiency of the ministers of state

Jesus was a dyer by trade. He also lived in Egypt. 'Out of Egypt have I called My Son' was spoken of Jesus. The fifth Gospel which is considered non-canonical gave other history of Jesus

With those who are against the Center of the Covenant you must not associate at all.... You will see a dimness on the faces, like the letting down of a veil.

Look at the plains, look at the hills: they are defeated armies, they are hosts that fell in heaps and were leveled with the ground

The Prophets of the Word could not sin. They possess the power and will to violate the Will of God, but the desire to do so is never present in them.

A living body cannot come forth from a dead body. Only a living man can make a living child; this is a scientific fact.

As we can only see different objects by the light of the sun, one might in one sense and with truth say the sun is in everything.

In the end, all will be well and happy times will come. 'Once again a time will come as sweet as sugar.' The time will come when the procession of pilgrims of all lands will be densely extended

...that was not really a deterioration of the essential part of the man, the mind or spirit, but a weakening of the functional organs.

All nations must become socialistic in spirit. People must not be forced by circumstances to help the poor. They must give aid willingly.

They must be souls well-known as Bahá'ís, firm and steadfast in the Covenant. The greatest requirement is to be firm and steadfast in the Covenant.

Paris is like unto a green meadow, the people are like unto sheep, they are grazing in this meadow, they drink of the flowing streams. The materialists, cow-like, graze also with the rest.

When Bahá'u'lláh was imprisoned in the barrack of Acca, he could see the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire under the despotic and fanatical rule of the Sultans

Well, what are we going to do next? Tell me what should be done? We have already travelled a good deal. We have crossed the seas

The Western people think differently, argue differently, and reach the truth from a different standpoint. They are always looking for results.

Severance from the world is the first sign of the Love of God. As long as man is much attached to this world he will be unaware of the Kingdom of God.