If sorrow and adversity visit us, let us turn our faces to the Kingdom and heavenly consolation will be outpoured.
— Abdú’l-Bahá - Paris Talks
Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with any one.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Gleaning from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh
Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
— Bahá’u’lláh - The Advent of Divine Justice
All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.
— Abdú’l-Bahá - Paris Talks
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
— Abdú’l-Bahá - Paris Talks
The source of all glory is acceptance of whatsoever the Lord hath bestowed, and contentment with that which God hath ordained.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
In all the action or inaction of man, he receives power from the help of God; but the choice of good or evil belongs to the man himself.
— Abdú’l-Bahá - Some Answered Questions
Unity is the expression of the loving power of God and reflects the reality of Divinity. It is resplendent in this Day through the bestowals of light upon humanity.
— Abdú’l-Bahá - The Promulgation of Universal Peace
Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created.
— Bahá’u’lláh - The Hidden Words
The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
O ye that dwell on earth! The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh
Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the drops of one ocean.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh
Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
— Bahá’u’lláh - Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh