Bahá’í Quotes

Nature - Nurture

Whether deficiencies are inborn or are acquired, our purpose in this life is to overcome them and to train ourselves in accordance with the pattern that is revealed to us in the divine teachings.

- From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice, 17 September 1993

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Istijlal 17 Izzat 183 B.E.

The second condition is that the members of the assembly should unitedly elect a chairman and lay down guide-lines and by-laws for their meetings and discussions. The chairman should have charge of such rules and regulations and protect and enforce them; the other members should be submissive, and refrain from conversing on superfluous and extraneous matters.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 88