Bahá’í Quotes

Life Vein

This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious bounty.

- Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 326

Distance is annihilated and prevents not the close and intimate association of two souls that are closely attached in heart even though they may be in two different countries.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, "Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 101

Quote of the Day

Jamal 15 Mashiyyat 183 B.E.

Know thou for a certainty that whoso disbelieveth in God is neither trustworthy nor truthful. This, indeed, is the truth, the undoubted truth . . . Nothing whatever can deter such a man from evil, nothing can hinder him from betraying his neighbor, nothing can induce him to walk uprightly.

Bahá’u’lláh – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 232-233