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

Jalal 3 Masail 182 B.E.

Adam is the spirit of Adam, and Eve is His soul; the tree is the human world, and the serpent is that attachment to this world which constitutes sin, and which has infected the descendants of Adam. Christ by His holy breezes saved men from this attachment and freed them from this sin.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Some Answered Questions, p. 126