Bahá’í Quotes

Moods

Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you -- and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

- [The Research] Department has found that these words were attributed to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in an unpublished English translation of notes in German by Dr. Josephine Fallscheer taken on 5 August 1910. As the statement is a pilgrim note, it cannot be authenticated.

Quote of the Day

Jalal 15 Qawl 182 B.E.

We are loath to mention such things, neither have We had, nor do We have now, any desire to complain against Our accuser.

Bahá’u’lláh – Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 34-35