Bahá’í Quotes

Dark Thoughts

He urges you to persevere and add up your accomplishments, rather than to dwell on the dark side of things. Everyone's life has both a dark and bright side. He urges you to persevere and add up your accomplishments, rather than to dwell on the dark side of things. Everyone's life has both a dark and bright side. The Master said: turn your back to the darkness and your face to Me.

- Shoghi Effendi, The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá’í Community, p. 457

He urges you to put these dark thoughts from your mind, and remember that God, the Creator of all men, can beat to see them suffer so, it is not for us to question His wisdom. He can compensate the innocent, in His own way, for the afflictions they bear.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 237

Quote of the Day

Istiqlal 6 Mashiyyat 183 B.E.

These are they whose countenances God hath graciously turned away from the face of the unbelievers . . . and whom  He hath strengthened and assisted through the hosts of the seen and the unseen.

Bahá’u’lláh – The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, p. 10