Lifeless
The souls who bear the tests of God become the manifestations of great bounties; for the divine trials cause some souls to become entirely lifeless, while they cause the holy souls to ascend to the highest degree of love and solidity. They cause progress and they also cause retrogression.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v2, p. 324
. . . approach Me not with lifeless hearts, defiled with worldly desires and cravings.
- Bahá’u’lláh, The Persian Hidden Words 19
Blessed the lifeless one who is quickened through My reviving breaths.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 16
Give ear unto this: Never shall mortal eye recognize the everlasting Beauty, nor the lifeless heart delight in aught but in the withered bloom. For like seeketh like, and taketh pleasure in the company of its kind.
- Bahá’u’lláh, The Persian Hidden Words 10
The world . . . may, moreover, be likened unto the lifeless image of the beloved whom the lover hath sought and found, in the end, after long search and to his utmost regret, to be such as cannot "fatten nor appease his hunger.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 68
They are even as dead and lifeless, except him whom thy Lord, the Almighty, the Unconstrained, hath willed to exempt. Such a one is indeed of those endued with knowledge in the sight of Him Who is the All-Knowing.
- Bahá’u’lláh, The Proclamation of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 76
Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 179
We are lifeless, and Thou art the great life-giving Spirit.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í Prayers, p. 139
Without the spirit the world of mankind is lifeless, and without this light the world of mankind is in utter darkness.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 303
Every other Word of Bahá’u’lláh's and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's Writings is a preachment on moral and ethical conduct; all else is the form, the chalice, into which the pure e spirit must be poured; without the spirit and the action which must demonstrate it, it is a lifeless form.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 345
Quote of the Day
Jalal 17 Masail 182 B.E.
We realize that a great problem is presented by gossip when it occurs in Bahá’í communities, and the poison it can instill into the relationship between the friends. However, deprivation of voting rights is usually of little help in such circumstances and should be resorted to only after other remedies have been tried and failed.
Universal House of Justice – Lights of Guidance, p. 60