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

Jamal 7 Qudrat 182 B.E.

Lechery is clearly forbidden by Bahá’u’lláh (See Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 49) and Shoghi Effendi has stated that a 'chaste and holy life', according to the teachings of the Faith, implies a condemnation of 'all manner' of 'sexual vices'. (See Advent of Divine Justice, p. 25)

From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer – 5 June, 1983