Stress
It is interesting to note as well that Shoghi Effendi encouraged the believers to study the Dawn-Breakers, which he described as an “unfailing instrument to allay distress.”
- Universal House of Justice to an individual believer, 23 October 1994
Cannot modern men and women be cured of hypertension and begin through the Word once again to find the lost certainty? Through faith will come serenity and maturity.
- Helen Reed Bishop’s Introduction to the 1950 Edition of the Kitab-i-Iqan, p. ix
Were they not -- our ancestors -- the same breed of men? Cannot modern men and women be cured of hypertension and begin through the Word once again to find the lost certainty? Through faith will come serenity and maturity.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Kitab-i-Iqan, p. ix
Tension derives from the fact that "In man there are two natures; his spiritual or higher nature and his material or lower nature."
- The Universal House of Justice, Messages 1963 to 1986, p. 662
Quote of the Day
Fidal 4 Kamal 183 B.E.
If we but turn our gaze to the high qualifications of the members of Bahá’í Assemblies . . . we are filled with feelings of unworthiness and dismay, and would feel truly disheartened but for the comforting thought that if we rise to play nobly our part every deficiency in our lives will be more than compensated by the all-conquering spirit of His grace and power.
Shoghi Effendi – Bahá’í Administration, p. 88