Bahá’í Quotes

Contagious

If you are sad, and pass a child who is laughing, the child, seeing your sad face, will cease to laugh, not knowing why.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 124

One must protect and safeguard the blessed souls from the breaths and fatal spiritual diseases; otherwise violation, like the plague, will become a contagion and all will perish.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 437

If you put a leper in a room with healthy people, he cannot catch their health; on the contrary they are very likely to catch his horrible ailment.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 188

Quote of the Day

Istiqlal 14 Kamal 183 B.E.

We are confident that the Army of Light, growing in strength and unity will, by 1973, the centenary year of the revelation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, have scaled the heights of yet another peak in the path leading ultimately to the broad uplands of the Most Great Peace.

The Universal House of Justice – Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1968-1973, p. 72