Bahá’í Quotes

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My name is ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, my identity is ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, my qualification is ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, my reality is ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, my praise is ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Thraldom to the Blessed Perfection is my glorious refulgent diadem; and servitude to all the human race is my perpetual religion.
— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v2, p. 429
God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray!
— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Paris Talks, p. 30
Commit thyself to God; give up thy will and choose that of God; abandon thy desire and lay hold on that of God; that thou mayest be a holy, spiritual and heavenly example among the maid-servants of God.
— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v1, p. 89-90
They have abandoned their God, and clung unto their desires. They truly have strayed and are in error. They read the verses and deny them.
— Bahá’u’lláh Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 134
Abandon the things current amongst men and hold fast unto that which God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, hath enjoined upon you. The day is fast approaching when all the treasures of the earth shall be of no profit to you.
— Bahá’u’lláh Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 232
On the appearance of fearful natural events call ye to mind the might and majesty of your Lord, He Who heareth and seeth all, and say "Dominion is God's, the Lord of the seen and the unseen, the Lord of creation."
— Bahá’u’lláh Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p 23
It behooveth man, upon reaching the age of nineteen, to render thanksgiving for the day of his conception as an embryo. For had the embryo not existed, how could he have reached his present state?
— The Báb: Selections from the Writings of the Báb p. 89
Were they, every moment of their lives, to offer up themselves as a sacrifice in Thy path, they would still have done but little in comparison with the manifold bestowals vouchsafed unto them by Thee.
— Bahá’u’lláh Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, p. 161
The spiritual love of God maketh man pure and holy and clotheth him with the garment of virtue and purity. And when man attacheth his heart wholly to God and becometh related to the Blessed Perfection, the divine bounty will dawn. This love is not physical, nay, rather, it is absolutely spiritual.
— ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Bahá’í World Faith, p. 365
He hath known God who hath known himself.
— Bahá’u’lláh Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 178

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Fidal 19 Mashiyyat 182 B.E.

While an Assembly should not and is not competent to determine whether a child is truly at risk, it is competent, and may have an obligation, to determine whether the allegation has some reasonable basis and the manner in which to proceed withreporting requirements.

From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly – 4 August, 1996