Bahá’í Quotes

Nature - Nurture

Whether deficiencies are inborn or are acquired, our purpose in this life is to overcome them and to train ourselves in accordance with the pattern that is revealed to us in the divine teachings.

- From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice, 17 September 1993

Quote of the Day

Jalal 6 Kalimat 183 B.E.

But man hath perversely continued to serve his lustful appetites . . . With this, and with the perpetrating of vile and ignoble acts, his attention was engrossed, and he abandoned the temperance and moderation of a natural way of life. The result was the engendering of diseases both violent and diverse.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, pp. 152-153