Bahá’í Quotes

Peacefulness

The purpose underlying the revelation of every heavenly Book, nay, of every divinely-revealed verse, is to endue all men with righteousness and understanding, so that peace and tranquillity may be firmly established amongst them.

- Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 205

Quote of the Day

Kamal 18 Mulk 182 B.E.

. . . if we spontaneously desire to acknowledge we have been wrong in something and that we have some fault of character, and ask another person's forgiveness or pardon, we are quite free to do so. The Guardian wants to point out, however, that we are not obliged to do so. It rests entirely with the individual.

From a letter written by the Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly – 19 March, 1973