Bahá’í Quotes

Live

The one reason I wish to live is that I may reveal Thy Cause, and I seek the continuance of life only that I may be touched by adversity in Thy path.

- Bahá’u’lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, p. 147

Material civilization is like the body and spiritual civilization is like the soul. Body without soul cannot live.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 30

Ye must live and move according to the divine commands and behests.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v3, p. 511

Quote of the Day

Idal 3 Kalimat 183 B.E.

The Bahá’ís are fully entitled to address criticisms to their assemblies; they can freely air their views about policies or individual members of elected bodies to the assembly, local or national, but then they must whole-heartedly accept the advice or decision of the assembly, according to the principles already laid down for such matters in Bahá’í administration.

Shoghi Effendi – Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, p. 55