Bahá’í Quotes

Renounce

Today the confirmations of the Kingdom of Bahá are with those who renounce themselves, forget their own opinions, cast aside personalities and are thinking of the welfare of others.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Star of the West, Vol. XVII, p. 348

The 'Master Key' to self-mastery is self- forgetting. The road to the palace of life is through the path of renunciation.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Star of the West, Vol. XVII, p. 348

. . . renouncement . . . giveth gradual repose and tranquility.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 335

Quote of the Day

Istiqlal 14 Qawl 182 B.E.

It is my firm conviction which I now express with all sincerity and candor, that the dignity and unity of the Cause urgently demands -- particularly throughout the American continent -- that the friends should in their words and conduct emphasize and give absolute prominence to the constructive dynamic principles of Bahá’u’lláh, rather than attach undue importance to His negative Teachings.

Shoghi Effendi – Bahá’í Administration, p. 18