It is not enough to wish to do good. The wish should be followed by action. What would you think of a mother who said

The most important thing is deeds. Good deeds are accepted by all nations and religions. As to presenting the teachings by word, the teacher must be as a skillful physician

Even the sword is no test to the Persian believers.... But some of the people here are tested if I don't say 'How do you do?'

Then do something that will keep you from dying; that will instead, day by day make you more alive

Spirit is the highest and supreme development of the soul. Soul is the material or outer self—the Mind. Mind is the action of the Soul's powers.

As long as you are on the shore--or as long as the sands of your sins are on the shore--the waves of the sea will wash them

If anyone comes to you and endeavors to belittle the station of another in your presence or speaks in any terms against another, you must not listen

Miracles have frequently obscured the Teachings which the Divine Messenger has brought. The Message is the real miracle.

They believe that mankind must love mankind, that universal amity must be practiced; that dead dogmas must be thrown away

There is spiritual healing and there is also material healing. Unless these two work together a cure is impossible.

All these things - the fish, the honeycomb etc, are symbols and were meant to be understood spiritually, just as the Resurrection itself was a spiritual resurrection.

I think we should learn to live in the body as if it were a glass case, through which we can look clearly on all sides. But we must remember that we cannot see through glass unless it is clean, and no one can dust his own case but himself.

Yes, a planet can lose the bounty of God and be destroyed. As man depends on his elements and the brain in particular, so the 'sent Prophets and Manifestations' are like the brain of a planet

You have intuition. You must follow it always, because when you follow it, it increases and becomes more clear. Only a few have this gift.

Paris is like a very large, clean stable where many millions of horses are well-fed, well-kept and well-trained; but you do not expect to find spirituality.

Individual consciousness is realized after birth here. This is the matrix world for the soul, even as the womb was the matrix world for the body or vehicle. Birth into consciousness of another world begins here, a world for which this physical and material one is but the preparation and foundation.

You must be very moderate. Consider the taste of the public. This is the best policy. Moderation, moderation.

I never dreamed to buy land around the Lake of Galilee and by the river Jordan, but the Blessed Perfection commanded me to do so, in consideration of their biblical sacredness

Don't forget this, that this is a Universal Temple--advertise it so; announce that this is for all and every religion

Baha'u'llah established Christ in the East. He has praised Christ, honored Christ, exalted Him

It is so good to come into your home!... Now this is as it should be. Here am I a Persian, and you an American.... My beloved Mount Carmel!

The Essence of Divinity--God--is sanctified above ascent, descent, and appearance. The lights of His qualities are manifest or reflected in the mirrors of the hearts of His Holy Manifestations.... It means the transference or transformation of created bodies into infinite forms of creation. Every indivisible electron is transformed into all the forms of creatures and everything travels or moves in everything.

The Bible and the Gospels are most honored in the estimation of all Bahais. One of the spiritual utterances

The body of man is created for this world but his heart is made for the habitation of the Holy Spirit.