Copper Gold
For instance, consider the substance of copper. Were it to be protected in its own mine from becoming solidified, it would, within the space of seventy years, attain to the state of gold.
- Bahá’u’lláh, The Ki tab-i-Ian, p. 157
The copper of scorn and derision will be transmuted into the gold of honor and praise.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í Scriptures, p. 547
Quote of the Day
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