Bahá’í Quotes

Make-up

Regarding Bahá’í women using facial make-up: individuals are entirely free to do as they please in such purely personal matters. As Bahá’ís are enjoined to use moderation in all things, and to seek the Golden mean, the N.S.A. can, if it deems it necessary or advisable, counsel the believers to use moderation in this respect also.

- Shoghi Effendi, Dawn of a New Day, p. 192

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