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

Jalal 19 Jamal 183 B.E.

It behooves him to be the cause of human welfare, but inasmuch as he glories in the savagery of animalism, it is an evidence that divine civilization has not been established in human society.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 103