Bahá’í Quotes

Self-Respect

"...man's supreme honor and real happiness lie in self-respect, in high resolves and noble purposes, in integrity and moral quality, in immaculacy of mind."

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 19

Quote of the Day

Jalal 6 Kalimat 183 B.E.

But man hath perversely continued to serve his lustful appetites . . . With this, and with the perpetrating of vile and ignoble acts, his attention was engrossed, and he abandoned the temperance and moderation of a natural way of life. The result was the engendering of diseases both violent and diverse.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, pp. 152-153