Yes, prayer might prevent the strong wind from blowing out the light of the lamp--but it could never change the amount of oil in the lamp--that is preordained.

The word 'same' means that the reality is one. Just as the sun arises from several points.

Opposition is unnecessary. Here is one who has a lecture to give. It you like, go; if not, stay away. You have more important things to consider, such as teaching.

Capacity attracts. The greater your capacity, the more you will be filled. When the child is hungry and cries for milk, the milk of the mother begins to flow rapidly.

The 'Self' of God spoken of in the Tablets refers to the Attributes of the Merciful, not to His Essence. This 'Self' is found in 'Perfection' in the Prophet, only.

The atoms composing an ocean are in appearance the ocean, but the identity of the atoms remains. So it is with our individuality in the ocean of life, it remains.

When I was young they would light ten candles and at the range of a very long distance I would put out the lights one after another without missing one.

Sometimes joking is necessary. Otherwise we would get depressed. The Blessed Beauty said, 'In every twenty-four hours, two hours must be spent in a way that will cause happiness.'

How could they (the Manifestations) teach and guide others in the Way if they themselves did not undergo every species of suffering to which other human beings are subjected.

If this Cause had appeared in America, today there would not have been a single soul in that country who would not be either a Bahá'í or a friend.

The teachings of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh are the breaths of the Holy Spirit which create man anew. Personal purity, both in private and public, is emphasized and insisted upon.

Love for men is love for God. To serve men is to serve God. My sign is this--that I serve the people, that I clothe the people.

One might say, 'Well, I will endure such-and-such a person so long as he is endurable.' But Bahá'ís must endure people even when they are unendurable.

The believers must cultivate a beautiful voice so that they may sing the Bahá'í songs or chant

It is most clear and manifest that national affairs will never revolve around their

Why should you wish to return here? In My Father's House are many mansions--many, many world! Why should you desire to come back to this particular planet?

It resembles many drunkards gathered together to protest against the drinking of alcohol. They say drink is horrible and they straightaway go out from the house to drink again.

Prayer is both attitude and word, it depends upon the soul-condition. It is like a song

Moral life consists in the government of one's self. Immortality is government of a human soul by the Divine Will.

No. Melchisedek, who was 'without beginning or end of days' was the first one.

All that we see around us is the work of mind. It is mind in the herb and in the mineral that acts on the human body, and changes its condition.

Between 1860 and 1865 you did a wonderful thing; you knocked the shackles from chattel slavery; but today you must do a much more wonderful thing: you must destroy industrial slavery.

I do not like the word 'leader'. I am Abdul Baha. I am the servant of the world of humanity.

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit changes the small acorn into an over-shadowing tree