Bahá’í Quotes

Pleasure

It demands daily vigilance in the control of one's carnal desires and corrupt inclinations. It calls for the abandonment of a frivolous conduct, with its excessive attachment to trivial and often misdirected pleasures.

- Shoghi Effendi: The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 30

Quote of the Day

Jalal 16 Ilm 183 B.E.

Those who turned toward the Word of God and received the profusion of His bounties -- were saved from this attachment and sin, obtained everlasting life, were delivered from the chains of bondage, and attained to the world of liberty. They were freed from the vices of the human world, and were blessed by the virtues of the Kingdom.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Some Answered Questions, p. 124