Quotes

Memorable lines drawn directly from the stories — auto-extracted from blockquotes and quoted passages.

All quotes (2149)

• "I told you to only say that you are a Bahá’í. I didn’t ask you to give a lecture and tell them why, and now you have to be punished."

  A Bahá’í who just returned from Iran told me the following story which… · Various

• "You have passed your test very well."

  A Bahá’í who just returned from Iran told me the following story which… · Various

• "and I am begging for your forgiveness and will not go until you have forgiven me."

  A Bahá’í who just returned from Iran told me the following story which… · Various

• "Follow the way and example of this youth for the rest of your lives."

  A Bahá’í who just returned from Iran told me the following story which… · Various

• "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego."

  A Cherokee elder was teaching his children about life · Various

• "The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too."

  A Cherokee elder was teaching his children about life · Various

• "Oh, won’t it be wonderful when at last we are liberated from the body and we’ll be able to fly throughout the universe."

  “… · Various

• "Sure, help yourself, these are rejected."

  A major event during the Master's visit to America was the dedication of the… · Various

• "the stone refused by the builder"

  A major event during the Master's visit to America was the dedication of the… · Various

• "I have heard ever since I was born about the spiritual life, and no one could ever explain to me what it is!"

  A ‘Mrs C’ was an early believer who went to ‘Akká · Various

• "Characterize thyself with the characteristics of God, and thou shalt know the spiritual life!"

  A ‘Mrs C’ was an early believer who went to ‘Akká · Various

• "Characterize thyself with the characteristics of God!"

  A ‘Mrs C’ was an early believer who went to ‘Akká · Various

• "the Bernese Alps, where he had spent so many months of his life walking and climbing."

  A number of times during his life, particularly in the years immediately… · Various

• "I want to go to the Holy Land."

  A rich man and a poor man lived in the same town · Various

• "We have started for the Holy Land and must not now return."

  A rich man and a poor man lived in the same town · Various

• "The Holy Land is a long distance to travel on foot. I have a donkey, I will go and fetch it."

  A rich man and a poor man lived in the same town · Various

• "are you not ashamed? I leave all my possessions to go on this pilgrimage and you wish to return to get your donkey! I have abandoned with joy my whole fortune. Your whole wealth consists of a donkey and you cannot leave it!"

  A rich man and a poor man lived in the same town · Various

• "A message was sent to headquarters:"

  A tale is told of British occupation in Palestine which may one day be related… · Various

• "Forget them. When your heart is filled with the love of God, there will not be room for sorrow, there will only be love and happiness."

  A woman visited the Master in Haifa, in May 1910 · Various

• "What message shall I take to my friends?"

  A young single-taxer began to question Him · Various

• "to come into the Kingdom of God. There they will find plenty of land and there are no taxes on it."

  A young single-taxer began to question Him · Various

• "One day in London, the sound of peals of laughter came from the direction of the kitchen. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá went quickly to join the happy group."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá always wanted people to be happy · Various

• "Tell me, why are you laughing?"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá always wanted people to be happy · Various

• "In the West women don't wear veils and take good care that the men do at least some of the work. YOu had better get on with cleaning that silver."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá always wanted people to be happy · Various

• "Luxury and comfort are not the all-important things in this life"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and His party arrived in Salt Lake City on the afternoon of 28 September · Various

• "services rendered unto the British government"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá anticipated that conditions of hardship would appear with these… · Various

• "I work by the confirmations of the Holy Spirit. I do not work by hygienic laws. If I did, I would get nothing done."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá appeared as the guest of honor at a meeting of the New York Peace… · Various

• "Poor Na'um has the measles, and everybody is keeping away from her. What can be done?"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá believed in using medicine as well as spiritual healing · Various

• "In the name of the disciples of Zoroaster, The Pure One, I hail Thee as the ‘Promised Shah Bahram’!"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá did not permit the pressures of travel to ruffle Him · Various

• "If you love me, why did you do these things?"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: How are you · Various

• "Oh, it matters little. It saves expenses. There is a difference of one dollar in the fare."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá knew how to give -- not just what He no longer wanted or needed · Various

• "Today I am relieved of fatigue. We've been to many lovely places during this journey but because of Our work We had no time to look at the scenery. We did not even think of a moments rest. Today, however, We have had a little respite."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá left Denver on a train at nine in the morning of 26 September · Various

• "because of his development of alternating current. Cobb noticed that the Wizard of Electricity was eagerly absorbing ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's elucidation of electricity. Rev. Moore said that"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá one day went to Schenectady, New York, where He visited the… · Various

• "No, I do not know everything but when I need to know something, it is pictured before Me."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá one day went to Schenectady, New York, where He visited the… · Various

• "you must sometimes stand up for the rights of men."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s sense of justice and equality also embraced the quality of… · Various

• "Do you love Mirza Yuhanna Dawud with all your heart and soul?"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said, “You are very welcome and it makes me happy to see you here in London · Various

• "Do you love Nur Mahal Khanum with all your heart and soul?"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said, “You are very welcome and it makes me happy to see you here in London · Various

• "Listen to it.  How it boils. It's better than anything, better than anything else in  the world. The weather is most pleasant. (referring to the weather of  'Akká, which was the most stinking in the whole world)."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tells the story of one of the prisoner in 'Akká, who had been with… · Various

• "Mrs. True, I want you to speak in public. I want you to tell the people about the faith."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tested both the faith and courage of many of the Bahá’ís He met… · Various

• "But Master, I can't do it; I have no training, no experience. I'm too frank."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tested both the faith and courage of many of the Bahá’ís He met… · Various

• "had many gifted speakers, but she didn't consider herself to be one of them."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tested both the faith and courage of many of the Bahá’ís He met… · Various

• "Forget what you can't do. Stand up and turn your heart wholly toward Me. Look over the heads of the audience and I'll never fail you."

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tested both the faith and courage of many of the Bahá’ís He met… · Various

• "Why do you tire yourself so, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá?"

  ‘‘Abdu’l-Bahá used to come on foot two miles in the heat carrying flower-pots… · Various

• "What can I do for Bahá’u’lláh?"

  ‘‘Abdu’l-Bahá used to come on foot two miles in the heat carrying flower-pots… · Various

• "That doesn't matter. Make another place. It doesn't make any difference whether servant, or different color. We are all one. He should sit there, and Fujita come here"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá walked back to the hotel and said how nice it would be to eat in the gardens · Various

• "God bless you for that suggestion, I am very tired"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was very tired and Agnes Parsons suggested he take a rest and not… · Various

• "NOW I will tell you a story and it isn't going to be a sermon!"

  ‘Abdu’l-Bahá went to the home of Rafael and Mrs · Various

• "Let the white make a supreme effort in their resolve to"

  The Most Vital and Challenging Issue: Shoghi Effendi on Race · Shoghi Effendi

• "contribute their share to the solution of this problem, to"

  The Most Vital and Challenging Issue: Shoghi Effendi on Race · Shoghi Effendi

• "abandon once for all their usually inherent and at times"

  The Most Vital and Challenging Issue: Shoghi Effendi on Race · Shoghi Effendi

• "subconscious sense of superiority."

  The Most Vital and Challenging Issue: Shoghi Effendi on Race · Shoghi Effendi

• "Priority should unhesitatingly be accorded the party representing"

  The Most Vital and Challenging Issue: Shoghi Effendi on Race · Shoghi Effendi

• "the minority, and this for no other reason except to stimulate"

  The Most Vital and Challenging Issue: Shoghi Effendi on Race · Shoghi Effendi

• "No one thought at the time of our departure from Ramleh that this voyage would be so enjoyable, that the great ocean would be crossed so easily and that my health would withstand the voyage in such manner!"

  After morning tea, the Master instructed that telegrams be sent to the… · Various

• "The drama is of the utmost importance. It has been a great"

  Art Is Worship: A Painter's Question in London · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "educational power in the past; it will be so again."

  Art Is Worship: A Painter's Question in London · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The Celestial Universe is so formed that the under world reflects"

  A Celestial Mirror: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Mrs. Thornburgh-Cropper's · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "What do you mean by the confirmations of the Spirit?"

  The Release · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Do not worry. That is a blessing"

  Although ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was a serious expounder of the Bahá’í Faith He had a fine… · Various

• "Who gets the blessing, Bill, you or the friend with the whiskers?"

  Although ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was a serious expounder of the Bahá’í Faith He had a fine… · Various

• "let her be, she is teaching the Faith in her own way."

  Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum in one of her memories says that she was once in a… · Various

• "That is why I am a Bahá’í now."

  Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum in one of her memories says that she was once in a… · Various

• "Praised be the Lord, these agonies, these broken fortunes are on Bahá’u’lláh's account, for His dear sake."

  Among the women who came out of their homeland was the sorrowing Fatimih Begum,… · Various

• "Praise be to God! We too have become companions of the Prophet's Household."

  Among the women who came out of their homeland was the sorrowing Fatimih Begum,… · Various

• "There is none to compare with this man for his words and acts, his righteousness, trustworthiness, and strong faith; in all things he is unique; what a pity that he is a Bahá’í!"

  Among those souls that are righteous, that are luminous entities and Divine… · Various

• "What a pity that he is not as we are, perverse, uncaring, committing sins, engrossed in sensuality, the creatures of our passions!"

  Among those souls that are righteous, that are luminous entities and Divine… · Various

• ".  The wife of the couple was alarmed and exclaimed that this particular invocation was reserved for life or death situations. Dorothy responded “What greater calamity than for (you) to have spent three years in the town with no result?"

  An American pioneering couple in the 1930’s had had no results in their… · Various

• "We behold Thee from above, turning Thy face to heaven; but We will have Thee turn to a Qiblih which shall please Thee."

  And likewise, reflect upon the revealed verse concerning the "Qiblih." [The… · Various

• "Turn Thou Thy face towards the sacred Mosque."

  And likewise, reflect upon the revealed verse concerning the "Qiblih." [The… · Various

• "to the lawyer, doctor, minister, statesman-a ready answer, a witty bon mot, a wise remark, a knowing smile was stock-in-trade. They all had their"

  Another characteristic always apparent was His silence · Various

• "but never had I imagined such a"

  Another characteristic always apparent was His silence · Various

• "When the sincere servant calls to Me in prayer I become the very ear with which He heareth My reply"

  Another characteristic always apparent was His silence · Various

• "Is the lady of this house within?"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Are you the hostess of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá?"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "I have walked thirty miles for that purpose."

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Come in and rest. After some refreshment you will tell me?"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Last evening I had decided to put an end to my futile, hateful life, useless to God and man!"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Whilst taking what I had intended should be my last walk, I saw `a Face' in the window of a newspaper shop. I stood looking at the face as if rooted to the spot. He seemed to speak to me, and call me to him!"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "I set off on my quest. I have come here to find him. Tell me, is he here? Will he see me? Even me?"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Of course he will see you. Come to Him."

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Welcome! Most welcome! I am very much pleased that thou hast come. Be seated."

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "said ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, holding one of the poor hands, stroking tenderly the dishevelled, bowed head. Smiling that wonderful smile of loving compassion, the Master continued:"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "The bounty and power of God is without limit for each and every soul in the world."

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Though thou be poor, thou mayest be rich in the Kingdom of God."

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Please write down for me His words. I have attained all I expected, and even more."

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "And now what are your going to do?"

  Another day, whilst several personages were talking with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Roy, you were on the National Assembly when this thing happened, when it first came up, weren’t you?"

  Another time he came over for dinner and he was rather disturbed · Various

• "Can you tell me what happened there at that first meeting?"

  Another time he came over for dinner and he was rather disturbed · Various

• "No, no, no, I will tell you what happened, and then you tell me if I’m right or wrong."

  Another time he came over for dinner and he was rather disturbed · Various

• "Shoghi Effendi, you are right even to the details."

  Another time he came over for dinner and he was rather disturbed · Various

• "What can I do to serve this Faith?"

  Another time we were told that we could have an interview with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and… · Various

• "Are you interested in detachment?"

  As an example of the methods of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s teaching: My father was having… · Various

• "You planted that very beautifully. Your flowers are very beautiful. I am very pleased with the way that you are keeping up this lawn. And I would like you to do so and so, and it’s just very beautiful."

  As he would go about, he would always be complimenting someone · Various

• "to economize in everything else but to use light freely."

  As we drove up Broadway, glittering with its electric signs, He spoke of them… · Various

• "Can't get in. Strange thing, they don't let us in."

  At one point on the parade route, there was a special section roped off · Various

• "I do not need a new springtime this year – the old springtime is enough for me"

  At one time the Master was asked, ‘What shall I say to those who state that… · Various

• "I have with infinite tears and at tremendous cost, raised and placed in position."

  Bahá’u’lláh could trust ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with the most difficult of tasks as He… · Various

• "0 Supreme Pontiff! Incline thine ear unto that which the Fashioner of moldering bones counselleth thee."

  Bahá’u’lláh told the Pope that He, Bahá’u’lláh, was the Father Who had been… · Various

• "I adjure you! Give me a chance to throw my stone in His face!"

  Bahá’u’lláh was stripped of His outer garments, the soles of His feet were… · Various

• "Suffer not this woman to be disappointed, deny her not what she regards as a meritorious act in the sight of God."

  Bahá’u’lláh was stripped of His outer garments, the soles of His feet were… · Various

• "I have not done as much as an ant could do in the path of God."

  Bahiyyih Randall was only thirteen years old when she went to Haifa to see the Master · Various

• "I have not done as much as an ant could do in the path of God!"

  Bahiyyih Randall was only thirteen years old when she went to Haifa to see the Master · Various

• "These are the people of aberration."

  AFTER THIS STORM · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Forsake them to play in their shallow waters."

  CONSIDER THE PAST · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Are they who know and they who do not know equal?"

  MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Many are called but few are chosen."

  OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE FAITH · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "I know because I perceive through my senses"

  THE DIVINE STANDARD OF KNOWLEDGE · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Put up the sword into the sheath."

  THE EDUCATORS OF MANKIND · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Announce Assemblies celebration marriage beloved Guardian. Inestimable honour conferred upon handmaid of Baha'u'llah Ruhiyyih Khanum Miss Mary Maxwell. Union of East and West proclaimed by Baha'i Faith cemented. Ziaiyyih mother of Guardian."

  Amatu’l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Announce Assemblies celebration marriage beloved Guardian. Inestimable honour conferred upon handmaid of Baha’u’llah Ruhiyyih Khanum Miss Mary Maxwell. Union of East and West proclaimed by Bahá’í Faith cemented. Ziaiyyih mother of Guardian."

  Amatu’l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "…whose oil would well nigh shine out, even though fire touched it not! It is light upon light."

  Áqá Ibráhím-i-Iṣfahání And His Brothers · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "O thou soul who art well-assured, return unto thy Lord, well-pleased, and well-pleasing unto Him. Enter thou among My servants; enter Thou My Paradise."

  Áqá Ibráhím-i-Iṣfahání And His Brothers · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "A special service rendered by Ibn-i-Abhar was the promotion of the education of women. He and his wife played an important part in the advancement of women in Persian society."

  Aqa Mirza Muhammad-Taqi Abhari (Ibn-i-Abhar) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Sir, are you the Fourth Pillar? I am a man who thirsts after spiritual truth and I yearn to know of the Fourth Pillar."

  Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Perish the thought! I shun all those who consider me the Fourth Pillar. Never have I made such a claim. Whoever says I have, speaks falsehood; may God’s curse be on him!"

  Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The Fourth Pillar is no figment. He is a being plainly visible to all. Like me, he has a turban on his head, he wears an ‘abá, and carries a cane in his hand."

  Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "there is, then, a contradiction in Your Honor’s teaching. First you say one thing, then you say another."

  Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I am busy now. Let us discuss this matter some other time. Today I must ask to be excused."

  Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "You are forbidden to go out of the fortress. You must hand over these two corpses to us. We will wash them, shroud them and bury them. But first you must pay for it."

  Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Sell it. Give the money to the guards."

  Áqá Muhammad-Báqir and Áqá Muhammad-Ismá‘íl, the Tailor · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "tempered at the camphor fountain."

  Áqá Muḥammad-Ibráhím · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "These thieves are very rich. In my report to the Government, I wrote that the amount of the theft was great. Therefore you must attend the trial and testify conformably to what I wrote."

  Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Your Honor, Khán, the stolen goods amounted to very little. How can I report something that is not true? When they question me, I will give the facts exactly as they are. I consider this my duty, and only this."

  Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "We have a golden opportunity here; you and I can both profit by it. Don’t let such a once-in-a-lifetime chance slip through your hands."

  Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Khán, how would I square it with God? Let me be. I shall tell the truth and nothing but the truth."

  Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Do you want to make me out a liar?"

  Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I have given up my life for the truth. I have nothing else. You are telling me to lie and bear false witness. Do with me as you please; I will not turn my back on what is right."

  Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "It is better, then, for you to leave this place, so that I can inform the Government that the owner of the merchandise is no longer available and has gone away. Otherwise I shall be disgraced."

  Hájí ‘Alí-‘Askar-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "For the time being, you will have to stay where you are. If your throat heals, you will be sent on, along with your brother. Be sure of this."

  Hájí Ja‘far-i-Tabrízí, Hájí Hasan-i-Tabrízí and Hájí Taqí-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I was weary of this life, and I tried to die. Not for a moment do I wish to linger in this world. Pray that I may go on."

  Hájí Ja‘far-i-Tabrízí, Hájí Hasan-i-Tabrízí and Hájí Taqí-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Do not look for me again; do not wait for my return."

  Ḥájí Muḥammad Khán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "praise be to God! Your test has demonstrated the Truth. You snared your bird of joy."

  Ḥájí Muḥammad Khán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "the proof is clear. I am convinced. This year, when you go to Bahá’u’lláh, say that I implore His grace and favor for this child, so that it may be kept safe in the sheltering care of God."

  Ḥájí Muḥammad Khán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Grieve passing Muhammad Tahir Malmiri long record services unforgettable praying progress should kingdom."

  Haji Muhammad Tihir Malmiri · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Because he has chosen you as intercessor, I will hide away his sins, and I will take steps to bring him comfort and peace of mind."

  His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "They have shown me every courtesy, and have also asked me for an introduction. I had no refuge or shelter except Your bounty; thus I beg of You to show them favor."

  His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "To His Eminence Bahá’u’lláh, Leader of the Bábís."

  His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "In Díyárbakr, the Ílkhání gave us particulars as to this Cause."

  His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Kalím, Kalím! The fame of the Cause of God has reached as far as Díyárbakr!"

  His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "In the Cause of God, the blame of the blamer shall he not fear."

  Husayn-Áqáy-i-Tabrízí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I am a servant of this Threshhold. I am one of the keepers of this door."

  Ismu’lláhu’l-Asdaq (Mullá Ṣádiq Khurasani) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "*Come, let us scatter these roses, let us pour out this wine,*"

  Jináb-i-Muníb · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "If you don’t put him ashore, I will do it by force, because the ship will not accept passengers in this condition."

  Jináb-i-Muníb · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Fathers of modern and traditional"

  Mirzá ‘Abd’u’lláh Faráháni, ‘The Divine Musician’ · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "… O thou attracted one of the Kingdom! Complete thou the study of the art of music and sacrifice thyself more or less to the Lord of the Kingdom."

  Mirzá ‘Abd’u’lláh Faráháni, ‘The Divine Musician’ · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "*Timeline to the Baghdad Period: Themes of Early Tablets and Historical Personages Related to them*"

  Mirza Aqay-i-Rikab-Saz · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, p. 124)"

  Mirza Asadu’llah Fadil Mazandarani (Jinab-i-Fadil) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Jinab-i-Fadil’s visit is still the most significant Bahá’í event to have occurred in British Columbia. His lectures drew “capacity audience"

  Mirza Asadu’llah Fadil Mazandarani (Jinab-i-Fadil) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "O our Lord! We have heard the voice of one that called. He called us to the Faith—‘Believe ye on your Lord’—and we have believed."

  Mírzá Ja‘far-i-Yazdí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Praise be to God! I am in the fully-laden Ark!"

  Mírzá Ja‘far-i-Yazdí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Go; chant the prayer of Yá Sháfí—O Thou, the Healer—and Mírzá Ja‘far will come alive. Very rapidly, he will be as well as ever."

  Mírzá Ja‘far-i-Yazdí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "he that was created by the light of Bahá"

  Mírzá Mihdí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "gave their all to purchase Joseph."

  Mírzá Mihdíy-i-Káshání · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "gave their all to purchase Joseph."

  Mírzá Mihdíy-i-Káshání · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "He is a public disgrace. Fortune has turned against him. He is done for."

  Mírzá Mihdíy-i-Káshání · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I feel that a holy being is in that carriage."

  Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, the Afnán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Although they will not allow us to pass through, we can stand there till he comes."

  Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, the Afnán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "A carriage is coming in and I think it is bringing one of our friends. When it reaches here, do not hold it up, and do not refer the matter to the Governor."

  Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, the Afnán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "This is verily the capital of the owl’s realm, where thou wilt hear no sound, save only the echo of his repeated calls."

  Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí, the Afnán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "My brother Mirza Muhammad-Ali has no child. I beg you to intercede in his behalf and to grant his heart’s desire."

  Mirza Muhammad-Husayn and Mirza Muhammad-Hasan · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "My brother Mirza Muhammad-Ali has no child. I beg you to intercede in his behalf and to grant his heart’s desire."

  Mirza Muhammad-Husayn and Mirza Muhammad-Hasan · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Let them both partake of this and their wish will be fulfilled."

  Mirza Muhammad-Husayn and Mirza Muhammad-Hasan · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "‘Mírzá, I see a strange, a unique conjunction in the stars. It has never occurred before. It proves that a momentous event is about to take place, and I am certain that this event can be nothing less than the Advent of the promised Qá’im.’"

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "We will seek sanctuary here in this house; we will remain here, by the door of Him Who guards the angels, until He shall deign to look into our concerns and to save us from our oppressors."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Matters of this kind are in the hands of the mujtahids and the government authorities. We do not interfere in such affairs."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "with all their exactions, have put Us to considerable inconvenience. There is no help for it—you will have to see to this case. But you must solve this entire, complicated matter in a single day."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "My instructions were that everything should be divided into two parts. How is it that there are three?"

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Such a thing is out of the question. This you must not require, for it cannot be complied with. We gave our word to Bahá’u’lláh that not so much as a copper coin would be accepted."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Let us leave this matter for the present. Is there any further disagreement among you?"

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "what has become of the money that was left?"

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "All the property was in their hands; I knew nothing of what was going on—I had no hint of it. They did whatever they pleased."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Is such a thing possible, that the late Hájí had no ready funds?"

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "It was accomplished only through Your confirmations. Otherwise it could not have been completed in a year. However, a difficulty has arisen."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "There is only one purpose for which I might expend that sum."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "That is no concern of ours, even if You have it thrown into the sea. We will not loose our hold from the hem of Your garment and we will not cease our importunities until You accede to our request."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I have now accepted this third share; and I have given it to Mírzá Músá, your brother, but on the condition that, from this day forward, he will speak no more of any claim against yourselves."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "An empty purse, but in our sleeve a hoard."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Unless You accept, in a very short time Mírzá Músá will scatter it all to the winds. For his own good, he should not have access to this wealth."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "We are appointing Mírzá Músá himself as Our deputy."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Do not speak of this, ever again. Do not so much as utter a word about those estates."

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I am the deputy (vakíl) of Bahá’u’lláh. These properties do not belong to Mírzá Músá. How is it that you have taken them over?"

  Mírzá Muhammad-i-Vakíl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "let me drink of reunion’s cup, find me a lodging in the shelter of Thy mercy, Lord of Lords!"

  Mírzá Muhammad · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Mírzá Mustafá had two long locks of hair. This cannot be the right man."

  Mírzá Mustafá Naráqí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Mírzá Mustafá had two long locks of hair. This cannot be the right man."

  Mírzá Mustafá Naráqí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Kill me first, kill me before Shaykh Ahmad, that I may not see them shed his blood!"

  Mírzá Mustafá Naráqí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "O seeker of the Beloved of the worlds"

  Mirza Yusuf Vahid Kashfi · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The field of service is wide open."

  Mirza Yusuf Vahid Kashfi · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I can protect you no longer. You are in grave danger. The best thing for you is to leave here, and go on a journey."

  Muḥammad-‘Alí-i-Isfahání · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "What perfume, what color! How lovely this meadow is, and the flowers so bright!"

  Muḥammad-‘Alí-i-Isfahání · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Muḥammad-Hádí has turned the square in front of this prison into the bridal bower of a palace. He has brought pleasure to all the neighbors and earned their thanks."

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The doctors have prescribed a purgative, and quinine. The fever stops a few days; then it returns. They give me more quinine, but still the fever returns. I am weary of this life, and can no longer do my work. Save me!"

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "What food would you most enjoy?"

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "What would you eat with great appetite?"

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Very good! But on condition there is braised garlic in it."

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I ate a whole bowlful of the soup. Then I laid my head on my pillow and slept peacefully till morning."

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Muḥammad-Hádí is burning up with fever."

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "he said that he knew from experience what he should do. Then he ate his fill of barley soup with whey and braised garlic; and this was the result."

  Muḥammad-Hádíy-i-Ṣaḥḥáf · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "This man is one of those souls who are at rest; he is indeed well-pleased with his Lord, and well-pleasing unto Him.   His faith is unalloyed, he loves God, he has a good character, and leads a good life. He is also an agreeable companion, and an eloquent one."

  Muḥammad Ḥaná-Sáb · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "No cry shalt thou hear from them, nor a whisper even."

  Mulla`Ali-Akbar Shahmirzadi · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The sign of a knower and lover is this, that you will find him dry in the sea."

  Mulla`Ali-Akbar Shahmirzadi · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Jináb, you have grown good and stout."

  Mulla`Ali-Akbar Shahmirzadi · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The lowliest of the creatures shall become the most exalted, and the most exalted shall become the most debased.’"

  Mulla Jafar Isfahani · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "what are you doing in this place?"

  Nabíl-i-Akbar (Áqá Muḥammad-i-Qá’iní) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I came here for the same reason you did."

  Nabíl-i-Akbar (Áqá Muḥammad-i-Qá’iní) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "men follow the faith of their kings."

  Nabíl-i-Akbar (Áqá Muḥammad-i-Qá’iní) · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Yea verily Thou art! Yea verily!"

  Nabíl-i-Zarandí aka Nabíl-i-A’ẓam · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "He is not, as he seems, a man of Bukhárá. He has come here to seek for news of Bahá’u’lláh."

  Nabíl-i-Zarandí aka Nabíl-i-A’ẓam · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "of meeting the Blessed Beauty in Ṭihrán. The instant I saw Him, I became His slave."

  Nabíl of Qá’in · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "For the Cause of God shall they strive hard; the blame of the blamer shall they not fear."

  Nabíl of Qá’in · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "O Ḥájí Aḥmad, I have a request to make of you: when I move on, out of this world and into the next, dig my grave here, beside the Purest Branch. This is the favor I ask."

  Nabíl of Qá’in · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Blessedness awaiteth him and a goodly home … And God will single out for His mercy whomsoever He willeth."

  Nabíl of Qá’in · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "appearance the Revelation of St. John the Divine anticipated as one of the two ‘Witnesses’ into whom, ere the ‘second woe is past,’ the ‘spirit of life from God’ must enter."

  Quddús · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Ismu’llahi’l-Akhir (the Last Name of God)"

  Quddús · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "later conferred the sublime appellation of Nuqtiy-i-Ukhra (the Last Point)"

  Quddús · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "a rank second to none except that of the Herald of His Revelation"

  Quddús · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "appearance the Revelation of St. John the Divine anticipated as one of the two ‘Witnesses’ into whom, ere the ‘second woe is past,’ the ‘spirit of life from God’ must enter."

  Quddús · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The Remains of the Bab in Tehran*"

  Sháh Muḥammad-Amín aka Haji Shah Muhammad Manshadi · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Plan only this, that thine eyes should behold Me."

  Shaykh ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Mázgání · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Place your hand on the distended area and speak the words: ‘O Thou The Healer!"

  Shaykh Ṣádiq-i-Yazdí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I have come to Tihrán and am on my way to Khurásán, for a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Imám Rida."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "with that man in the white robe?"

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I had sold him an ‘abá the day before, and yesterday he was to pay me."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Take him to the money-changer’s and look into it."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "about the sale of an ‘abá and your vouching for the payment? Explain yourself."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "All is clear at last. You are a Bábí."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Where have you been, Khájih Muhammad-‘Alí? When did you arrive? Welcome!"

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I came here a few days ago and now the police have arrested me."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I know him well. Khájih Muhammad-‘Alí is a God-fearing Muslim, a Shí’ih, a devout follower of the Imám ‘Alí."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I am not Khájih Muhammad-‘Alí."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "You two are identical. However, since you are not he, give me back the money I paid the farrásh."

  Shaykh Salmán · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "*Timeline to the Baghdad Period: Themes of Early Tablets and Historical Personages Related to them*"

  Siyyid Mirza Husayn-i-Mutavalli · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Keep all my words of prayer and praise confined to one refrain; make all my life but servitude to Thee."

  Siyyid Muḥammad-Taqí Manshádí · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "truly an example of steadfast devotion and one of the outstanding pioneers the Faith produced during the first century of its existence"

  Siyyid Mustafa Rumi · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Would that she had been a boy, for he would have shed illumination upon my household, and would have succeeded me!"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "For a long time now, I have thirsted after this; I have yearned for these explanations, these inner truths. Give me whatever you have of these books. Never mind if it angers my father."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Javád has made you a lost soul!"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Oh my father, these are the words of the Holy Imám. How can you mock and deny them?"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I am at your disposal. Do not harm any other."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "No word has come from either Baghdad or Constantinople. Accordingly, we will ourselves proceed to Baghdad and await the answer there."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "If you are not satisfied with these conclusive proofs, I challenge you to a trial by ordeal."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "This is the meaning of your dream: you are about to deliver me from the hands of the Shí‘ih divines."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The answer has come from Constantinople. The King has commanded that you be set free, but only on condition that you leave his realms. Go then, tomorrow, make your preparations for the journey, and hasten away from this land."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "O thou just Governor! We were guests in your city. Is this the way you treat your guests?"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I knew nothing of this injustice. This mischief was kindled by the divines."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "That Shaykh is the one who has kindled this fire of evil, and subjected the whole world to this ordeal!"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "so that you will set these innocent people free."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "besides the Law, and besides the Path, we also have the Truth. It was in serving the Truth that I paid him for his deed."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "It is better for you to be killed than to kill"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "With a sweet taste on your lips, put me to death—for you bring me martyrdom, my dearest wish!"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "This garden is preferable. Come, then, to this one."

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "The Trumpet is sounding! The great Trump is blown! The universal Advent is now proclaimed!"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "How can the Law be abrogated? How is it that this woman stands here without her veil?"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "When the Day that must come shall have come suddenly… Day that shall abase! Day that shall exalt!…"

  Táhirih · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "and Shoghi Effendi later described him as"

  Thornton Chase, Disciple of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "For them is an abode of peace with their Lord."

  Ustád ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Najjár · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Nothing is left me on this pathway. I have lost everything, including my bride. I have been able to give Him all I possessed."

  Ustád Ismá’íl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "Nothing is left me on this pathway. I have lost everything, including my bride. I have been able to give Him all I possessed."

  Ustád Ismá’íl · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I did not do it all alone; there were so many others who helped."

  William Sutherland Maxwell · Bahá'í Chronicles editors

• "I know, I know, Mrs. true, because I have sent them to you."

  Before He left, He spent some time with Corinne True · Various

• "we will all verily abide by the will of God"

  Before leaving London, the Master officiated a wedding of a young Persian couple · Various

• "How blessed and exalted was that time! How joyous that hours in that room!"

  Before leaving London, the Master officiated a wedding of a young Persian couple · Various

• "At the wedding there was no cake, only cups of tea; there were no decorations, and no choir, but the blessing of Jamál-i-Mubarak; the glory and beauty of love and happiness were beyond and above all luxury and ceremony and circumstance."

  Before leaving London, the Master officiated a wedding of a young Persian couple · Various

• "The rigours of a winter of exceptional severity, coupled with"

  An Abiding Impression: Bahíyyih Khánum's Winter in Adrianople · Various

• "the privations entailed by unhealthy housing accommodation and"

  An Abiding Impression: Bahíyyih Khánum's Winter in Adrianople · Various

• "dire financial distress, undermined once for all her health and"

  An Abiding Impression: Bahíyyih Khánum's Winter in Adrianople · Various

• "sapped the vitality which she had hitherto so thoroughly"

  An Abiding Impression: Bahíyyih Khánum's Winter in Adrianople · Various

• "The stress and storm of that period made an abiding impression"

  An Abiding Impression: Bahíyyih Khánum's Winter in Adrianople · Various

• "upon her mind, and she retained till the time of her death on"

  An Abiding Impression: Bahíyyih Khánum's Winter in Adrianople · Various

• "her beauteous and angelic face evidences of its intense"

  An Abiding Impression: Bahíyyih Khánum's Winter in Adrianople · Various

• "The city of Baghdád was swept by the hurricane which the"

  The Burden a Sister Carried: Bahíyyih Khánum in the Baghdád Crisis · Various

• "heedlessness and perversity of Mírzá Yahyá had unchained."

  The Burden a Sister Carried: Bahíyyih Khánum in the Baghdád Crisis · Various

• "The delicacy and extreme gravity of which … both capable of"

  The Burden a Sister Carried: Bahíyyih Khánum in the Baghdád Crisis · Various

• "sharing the burden, and willing to make the sacrifice, which"

  The Burden a Sister Carried: Bahíyyih Khánum in the Baghdád Crisis · Various

• "From the hand of the Greatest Holy Leaf, and out of the"

  She Restored Sight to the Blind: Bahíyyih Khánum's Wartime Relief Work in Haifa · Various

• "abundance of her heart, these hapless victims of a contemptible"

  She Restored Sight to the Blind: Bahíyyih Khánum's Wartime Relief Work in Haifa · Various

• "tyranny, received day after day unforgettable evidences of a"

  She Restored Sight to the Blind: Bahíyyih Khánum's Wartime Relief Work in Haifa · Various

• "love they had learned to envy and admire."

  She Restored Sight to the Blind: Bahíyyih Khánum's Wartime Relief Work in Haifa · Various

• "The remedies which, by a process of her own, she herself"

  She Restored Sight to the Blind: Bahíyyih Khánum's Wartime Relief Work in Haifa · Various

• "prepared and diligently applied."

  She Restored Sight to the Blind: Bahíyyih Khánum's Wartime Relief Work in Haifa · Various

• "Comforting the disconsolate, restoring sight to the blind,"

  She Restored Sight to the Blind: Bahíyyih Khánum's Wartime Relief Work in Haifa · Various

• "Her parents had so suddenly lost their earthly possessions that"

  A Handful of Flour: Bahíyyih Khánum's Tihrán Childhood · Various

• "within the space of a single day, from being the privileged"

  A Handful of Flour: Bahíyyih Khánum's Tihrán Childhood · Various

• "member of one of the wealthiest families of Tihrán, she had"

  A Handful of Flour: Bahíyyih Khánum's Tihrán Childhood · Various

• "sunk to the state of a sufferer from unconcealed poverty."

  A Handful of Flour: Bahíyyih Khánum's Tihrán Childhood · Various

• "Her illustrious mother, the famed Navváb, was constrained to"

  A Handful of Flour: Bahíyyih Khánum's Tihrán Childhood · Various

• "place in the palm of her daughter's hand a handful of flour and"

  A Handful of Flour: Bahíyyih Khánum's Tihrán Childhood · Various

• "to induce her to accept it as a substitute for her daily bread."

  A Handful of Flour: Bahíyyih Khánum's Tihrán Childhood · Various

• "Quiet, day after day, the old believer would ascend, watch,"

  An Old Believer Looks Up: A Mountain Ascended Many Times · J. E. Esslemont

• "and descend — and the visit itself was the speech."

  An Old Believer Looks Up: A Mountain Ascended Many Times · J. E. Esslemont

• "When He was only thirteen or fourteen years old He became"

  Renowned at Thirteen: The Boy Who Could Speak on Any Subject · J. E. Esslemont

• "renowned for His learning. He would converse on any subject"

  Renowned at Thirteen: The Boy Who Could Speak on Any Subject · J. E. Esslemont

• "and solve any problem presented to Him."

  Renowned at Thirteen: The Boy Who Could Speak on Any Subject · J. E. Esslemont

• "Those piercing eyes seemed to read one's very soul; power and"

  Those Piercing Eyes: Edward Granville Browne in the Presence of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "authority sat on that ample brow."

  Those Piercing Eyes: Edward Granville Browne in the Presence of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "The face of him on whom I gazed I can never forget, though I"

  Those Piercing Eyes: Edward Granville Browne in the Presence of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "The Branch from the Ancient Root."

  Center of the Covenant · J. E. Esslemont

• "Dawning Place of God’s Praise."

  Mashriqu’l-Adhkár34 · J. E. Esslemont

• "He Whom the Lord shall make manifest"

  Passion and Triumph · J. E. Esslemont

• "They were refused admittance within the city walls. They used"

  Pilgrims Beyond the Third Moat: An Esslemont Story of 'Akká · J. E. Esslemont

• "to go to a place on the plain outside the third moat, from"

  Pilgrims Beyond the Third Moat: An Esslemont Story of 'Akká · J. E. Esslemont

• "which they could see the windows of Bahá'u'lláh's quarters."

  Pilgrims Beyond the Third Moat: An Esslemont Story of 'Akká · J. E. Esslemont

• "We were consigned for four months to a place foul beyond"

  Foul Beyond Comparison: Bahá'u'lláh's Recollection of the Síyáh-Chál · J. E. Esslemont

• "The dungeon was wrapped in thick darkness, and Our fellow-"

  Foul Beyond Comparison: Bahá'u'lláh's Recollection of the Síyáh-Chál · J. E. Esslemont

• "prisoners numbered nearly a hundred and fifty souls."

  Foul Beyond Comparison: Bahá'u'lláh's Recollection of the Síyáh-Chál · J. E. Esslemont

• "in the spirit and power of Elias."

  Return of Christ · J. E. Esslemont

• "The teaching of the Bábís — which is now passing into a"

  Letters to Tolstoy: The Russian Imperial Bahá'ís · J. E. Esslemont

• "form of pure Bahá'ísm — comes to us as the highest and"

  Letters to Tolstoy: The Russian Imperial Bahá'ís · J. E. Esslemont

• "purest form of religious teaching."

  Letters to Tolstoy: The Russian Imperial Bahá'ís · J. E. Esslemont

• "[The Shaykh] took hold of the hands of the Blessed Beauty and"

  An Hour of Kissed Hands: 'Abdu'l-Bahá Wins Bahá'u'lláh a Day in the Country · J. E. Esslemont

• "kissed them for an hour, finally hearing: *Khaylí khub — very"

  An Hour of Kissed Hands: 'Abdu'l-Bahá Wins Bahá'u'lláh a Day in the Country · J. E. Esslemont

• "His delivery was quiet, untheatrical, most convincing."

  Quiet, Untheatrical, Most Convincing: Esslemont on the Master in London · J. E. Esslemont

• "God comprehends all; He cannot be comprehended."

  The Agnosticism · J. E. Esslemont

• "without doubt he shall perish everlastingly"

  The Dawn of Reconciliation · J. E. Esslemont

• "there may be one fold and one shepherd"

  The Greatest Event in History · J. E. Esslemont

• "peace on earth, goodwill among men."

  The Most Great Peace · J. E. Esslemont

• "Pious, observant, scrupulously honest in his trade — long"

  The Young Merchant of Shíráz: Esslemont's Portrait of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "before any declaration the young merchant was already what He"

  The Young Merchant of Shíráz: Esslemont's Portrait of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

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  1844: A lonely youth’s encounter with Bahá’u’lláh by a roadside in Mazindaran and his amazing recognition of His station · Various

• "I am cooking God and am burning Him."

  1844: A lonely youth’s encounter with Bahá’u’lláh by a roadside in Mazindaran and his amazing recognition of His station · Various

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  1846: How the Governor of Isfáhán, Muchihr Khán, managed to save the Báb from the death verdict issued by seventy eminent ‘ulamás and notables in Isfáhán · Various

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  1846: How the Governor of Isfáhán, Muchihr Khán, managed to save the Báb from the death verdict issued by seventy eminent ‘ulamás and notables in Isfáhán · Various

• ">circa 1930: View of the ruins of the section <br />the Bab occupied</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="

  1846: How the Governor of Isfáhán, Muchihr Khán, managed to save the Báb from the death verdict issued by seventy eminent ‘ulamás and notables in Isfáhán · Various

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  1848: Baha’u’llah describes the consternation that seized the Bábís when Tahirih suddenly appeared unveiled at the conference of Badasht · Various

• ">We soon joined her <span style="

  1848: Baha’u’llah describes the consternation that seized the Bábís when Tahirih suddenly appeared unveiled at the conference of Badasht · Various

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  1848: Baha’u’llah suffered the humiliating bastinado punishment · Various

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  1848: Baha’u’llah suffered the humiliating bastinado punishment · Various

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  1848: Baha’u’llah suffered the humiliating bastinado punishment · Various

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  1848: Baha’u’llah suffered the humiliating bastinado punishment · Various

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  1851 Karbilá, Iraq: A disciple of the Báb becomes the first person to whom Baha'u'llah confided His Divine Mission – as was prophesied by the Báb in 1848 · Various

• ">Many years later, He recalled that</span> <span style="

  1851 Karbilá, Iraq: A disciple of the Báb becomes the first person to whom Baha'u'llah confided His Divine Mission – as was prophesied by the Báb in 1848 · Various

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  1969: The story of Saskatoon… · Various

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  1969: The story of Saskatoon… · Various

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  A believer’s dream about hosting the Báb when He was expected to arrive at Káshán in the company of a mounted escort · Various

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  A believer’s dream about hosting the Báb when He was expected to arrive at Káshán in the company of a mounted escort · Various

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  A believer’s eagerness to provide financial assistance to Baha’u’llah – but chose a wrong method · Various

• ">- Adib Taherzadeh <span style="

  A believer’s eagerness to provide financial assistance to Baha’u’llah – but chose a wrong method · Various

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  A funny incident while in the company of the Master · Various

• "Do not worry. That is a blessing"

  A funny incident while in the company of the Master · Various

• "I don't think the Guardian put the kaross in the mansion."

  A gift from Africa for the beloved Guardian · Various

• "He must have. He said he would. It must be there."

  A gift from Africa for the beloved Guardian · Various

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  A mujtahid’s dream about Baha’u’llah during His youthful years – recalled by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  A pilgrim reports in 1920 how busy ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was replying to numerous letters from around the world · Various

• "O man, what do you want from me?"

  A pilgrim reports in 1920 how busy ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was replying to numerous letters from around the world · Various

• ">- Nuru’d-din Mumtazi <span style="

  A pilgrim reports in 1920 how busy ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was replying to numerous letters from around the world · Various

• "why madam, I never had any troubles, I don't know what troubles are."

  A Western woman telling ‘Abdu’l-Baha about her troubles … · Various

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  A youth sees Bahá’u’lláh revealing Verses of God – recalled by Hand of the Cause Tarázu’lláh Samandari · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha had the Power of Ether · Various

• ">- Juliet Thompson <span style="

  ‘Abdu’l-Baha had the Power of Ether · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha lived in the morgue of the barracks in Akka for two years · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha lived in the morgue of the barracks in Akka for two years · Various

• ">The dear friends in this city <span style="

  ‘Abdu’l-Baha lived in the morgue of the barracks in Akka for two years · Various

• "Master! how do you like these rooms?"

  ‘Abdu’l-Baha lived in the morgue of the barracks in Akka for two years · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha recalls an example of Baha’u’llah’s majesty and power while officially still a prisoner · Various

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  'Abdu’l-Bahá relates a story as a metaphor · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s surprising response to two believers trying to identify the most acceptable form of martyrdom – recalled by one of His secretaries · Various

• ">- Dr. Youness Afroukhteh <span style="

  ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s surprising response to two believers trying to identify the most acceptable form of martyrdom – recalled by one of His secretaries · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s visit to Montreal – Maxwell House · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s visit to Montreal – Maxwell House · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s visit to Montreal – Maxwell House · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s visit to Montreal – Maxwell House · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha tells a story about an incident during His childhood · Various

• ">[2]</span> and Aqa Mirza Muhammad-Quli. <span style="

  ‘Abdu’l-Baha tells a story about an incident during His childhood · Various

• ">Our aunt lived in the Takyih <span style="

  ‘Abdu’l-Baha tells a story about an incident during His childhood · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha tells the story of His prison life at the request of a reporter in Paris · Various

• ">After the death of the Vazir [Mirza Buzurg, </span><span style="

  After the death of Bahá'u'lláh’s father the Prime Minister of Persia schemed ways to possess a village that belonged to the family of Baha’u’llah · Various

• ">- H. M. Balyuzi <span style="

  After the death of Bahá'u'lláh’s father the Prime Minister of Persia schemed ways to possess a village that belonged to the family of Baha’u’llah · Various

• ">The night before his [</span><span style="

  ‘Alí Khán, the warden of the castle of Máh-Kú, had an amazing dream about Mullá Husayn’s arrival · Various

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  An example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha drawing from “the power of Baha’u’llah” · Various

• "You are all very old! I am very young!"

  An example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha drawing from “the power of Baha’u’llah” · Various

• ">Seeing me full of wonder, 'Abdu'l-Bahá said:"

  An example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha drawing from “the power of Baha’u’llah” · Various

• "Path of the Love of God and of Mankind."

  An example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha drawing from “the power of Baha’u’llah” · Various

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  An example of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s ability to see the light of the spirit of a human being at a considerable distance – narrated by the Master · Various

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  An example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s sense of humor · Various

• ">There was a believer by the name of </span><u style="

  An example of Baha’u’llah bestowing physical healing upon a believer · Various

• ">- Hand of the Cause Balyuzi <span style="

  An example of Baha’u’llah’s kindness to the needy · Various

• ">- Ruhiyyih Khanum <span style="

  An example of how ‘Abdu’l-Baha refused to be intimated or cheated · Various

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  An example of how ‘Abdu’l-Baha treated an unfriendly Christian missionary in ‘Akka · Various

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  An example of how ‘Abdu’l-Baha treated an unfriendly Christian missionary in ‘Akka · Various

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  An example of how ‘Abdu’l-Baha treated an unfriendly Christian missionary in ‘Akka · Various

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  An example of how Baha’u’llah during His younger years chastised a famous religious leader for showing disrespect towards Christ · Various

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  An example of how man is unable to prevent God from executing His will · Various

• "It is the custom of the country."

  An example of how the Báb changed unseemly business practices while He was a merchant in Bushihr, Persia – related by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• "Many of these customs are wrong and will soon be abolished."

  An example of how the Báb changed unseemly business practices while He was a merchant in Bushihr, Persia – related by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• "I wish to put an end to this custom."

  An example of how the Báb changed unseemly business practices while He was a merchant in Bushihr, Persia – related by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  An example of how the Guardian lived frugally and simply – by Hand of the Cause Furutan · Various

• "Beloved Guardian, this is my honor."

  An example of how the Guardian lived frugally and simply – by Hand of the Cause Furutan · Various

• ">- Ali-Akbar Furutan <span style="

  An example of how the Guardian lived frugally and simply – by Hand of the Cause Furutan · Various

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  An example of love and compassion shown by Munirih Khanum (‘Abdu’l-Baha’s wife) · Various

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  An example of the Báb’s honesty and fairness in business dealings while in Búshihr · Various

• ">A certain man confided to His <span style="

  An example of the Báb’s honesty and fairness in business dealings while in Búshihr · Various

• ">- Hájí Siyyid Javád-i-Karbilá’í<span style="

  An example of the Báb’s honesty and fairness in business dealings while in Búshihr · Various

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  An example of the commanding power of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá · Various

• ">In telling the story ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s sister, Bahiyyih Kh</span><span style="

  An example of the commanding power of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá · Various

• "We had never before seen my brother angry."

  An example of the commanding power of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá · Various

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  An example of the effect of Baha’u’llah’s Teachings on early believers · Various

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  An example of the operation of the Will of God · Various

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  An overwhelming desire to see ‘Abdu’l-Baha... · Various

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  An overwhelming desire to see ‘Abdu’l-Baha... · Various

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  An overwhelming desire to see ‘Abdu’l-Baha... · Various

• "I came seven thousand miles to see you."

  An overwhelming desire to see ‘Abdu’l-Baha... · Various

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  An overwhelming desire to see ‘Abdu’l-Baha... · Various

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  Baha’u’llah during His youthful prime – told by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  Bahá’u’lláh’s departure for the Garden of Ridván · Various

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  Bahá’u’lláh’s departure for the Garden of Ridván · Various

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  Bahá’u’lláh’s father’s dream about Him when He was a child and the soothsayer’s amazing interpretation and prediction · Various

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  Bahá’u’lláh’s marriage to Ásíyih Khánúm and their early lives together up until His recognition of the Báb · Various

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  Baha’u’llah’s servant: Isfandiyar - "the essence of love, radiant with sanctity and perfection, luminous with light" · Various

• "What has befallen their saintly mother?"

  Baha’u’llah’s servant: Isfandiyar - "the essence of love, radiant with sanctity and perfection, luminous with light" · Various

• ">- Hand of the Cause, Abu’l-Qasim Faizi <span style="

  Baha’u’llah’s servant: Isfandiyar - "the essence of love, radiant with sanctity and perfection, luminous with light" · Various

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  Baha’u’llah visits Mulla Husayn and his companions at Fort Tabarsi · Various

• ">“The tidings which Shaykh Abú-Turáb <span style="

  Baha’u’llah visits Mulla Husayn and his companions at Fort Tabarsi · Various

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  Be natural, be happy… · Various

• ">[Dodge]</span> and I <span style="

  Be natural, be happy… · Various

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  Being in the presence of Bahá'u'lláh -- Varqá recalled his unique experiences · Various

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  Being present when ‘Abdu’l-Baha revealed a Tablet · Various

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  Catching a glimpse of the majesty of ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  Catching a glimpse of the majesty of ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  Catching a glimpse of the majesty of ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  Catching a glimpse of the majesty of ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  circa 1841, Karbilá: a disciple of Siyyid Kázim describes what happened when the Báb made a quiet appearance at one of Siyyid Kázim’s gatherings · Various

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  circa 1841, Karbilá: a disciple of Siyyid Kázim describes what happened when the Báb made a quiet appearance at one of Siyyid Kázim’s gatherings · Various

• ">Three days later, I saw that same Youth </span><span style="

  circa 1841, Karbilá: a disciple of Siyyid Kázim describes what happened when the Báb made a quiet appearance at one of Siyyid Kázim’s gatherings · Various

• ">- Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí <span style="

  circa 1841, Karbilá: a disciple of Siyyid Kázim describes what happened when the Báb made a quiet appearance at one of Siyyid Kázim’s gatherings · Various

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  circa 1848: Baha’u’llah’s first imprisonment · Various

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  circa 1848: Baha’u’llah’s first imprisonment · Various

• ">[alderman]</span> in whose home they <span style="

  circa 1848: Baha’u’llah’s first imprisonment · Various

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  circa 1848: Baha’u’llah’s first imprisonment · Various

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  circa 1850: Nabil, the author of Dawn-Breakers, took ‘Abdu’l-Baha to school one day · Various

• ">One day Mírzá Ahmad conducted me <span style="

  circa 1850: Nabil, the author of Dawn-Breakers, took ‘Abdu’l-Baha to school one day · Various

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  Divine intervention in the twinkling of an eye - a believer experienced · Various

• ">- Shoghi Effendi <span style="

  Eight-year-old ‘Abdu’l-Bha was allowed to see Baha’u’llah while in the Síyáh-Chál · Various

• ">(‘The Promised Day Is Come’)</span></span></p><p class="

  Eight-year-old ‘Abdu’l-Bha was allowed to see Baha’u’llah while in the Síyáh-Chál · Various

• ">- Shoghi Effendi <span style="

  “For three days and three nights no manner of food or drink was given to Bahá’u’lláh” · Various

• ">(‘The Promised Day Is Come’)</span></span></p><p class="

  “For three days and three nights no manner of food or drink was given to Bahá’u’lláh” · Various

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  Generosity, love and devotion of the King and Beloved of Martyrs · Various

• ">[1] A high religious dignitary of the city.</span><span style="

  Generosity, love and devotion of the King and Beloved of Martyrs · Various

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  Gifts from one Manifestation of God to Another · Various

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  Gifts from one Manifestation of God to Another · Various

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  Gifts from one Manifestation of God to Another · Various

• ">While in the hamlet of Kulayn, the B</span><span style="

  Gifts from one Manifestation of God to Another · Various

• ">“I have heard Mulla Abdu'l-Karim <span style="

  Gifts from one Manifestation of God to Another · Various

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  Hand of the Cause Bill Sears' first glimpse of ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• ">As Bill related the</span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Bill Sears' first glimpse of ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">Faizi followed the other children when the </span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">atmosphere. He lifted his</span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">when a tall, well-dressed young man entered the </span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">The class began and the students started reciting in </span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">he did not </span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">a quotation from the </span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">The words Faizi heard in that class had a deep effect on </span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

• ">classes. Faizi’s mother who </span><span style="

  Hand of the Cause Mr. Faizi’s first exposure to the Baha’i Faith as a child · Various

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  How Baha’u’llah managed to evade Prime Minister’s persistent attempts to take possession of one of His properties through fraudulent means and evil designs · Various

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  How Mulla Husayn received his famous sword · Various

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  How Mulla Husayn received his famous sword · Various

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  How Mullá Sádiq-i-Muqaddas recognized the Báb through Mullá Husayn in Isfahán · Various

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  How one of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s translators became fluent in Arabic – without studying it · Various

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  How the death warrant for the Báb was obtained from three leading priests in Tabriz · Various

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  How the death warrant for the Báb was obtained from three leading priests in Tabriz · Various

• "No need to bring </span><span style="

  How the death warrant for the Báb was obtained from three leading priests in Tabriz · Various

• "Do not bring </span><span style="

  How the death warrant for the Báb was obtained from three leading priests in Tabriz · Various

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  How the death warrant for the Báb was obtained from three leading priests in Tabriz · Various

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  How the death warrant for the Báb was obtained from three leading priests in Tabriz · Various

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  How the death warrant for the Báb was obtained from three leading priests in Tabriz · Various

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  How the second “Letter of the Living” recognized the Báb… · Various

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  "I am only a drop from the vast ocean of Baha'u'llah's school" · Various

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  "I am only a drop from the vast ocean of Baha'u'llah's school" · Various

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  June-July 1849: The Báb’s immeasurable sorrow when the news of the martyrdom of Mulla Husayn, the heroes of Tabarsí, and Quddus reached Him · Various

• ">With the advent of Muharram in the year 1266 A.H., <span style="

  June-July 1849: The Báb’s immeasurable sorrow when the news of the martyrdom of Mulla Husayn, the heroes of Tabarsí, and Quddus reached Him · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Karbila, circa 1841: A meeting between the Báb and His forerunner Siyyid Kazim -- its profound and long-lasting effect on a disciple of Siyyid Kazim who was also present · Various

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  Language barrier... · Various

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  Lending a “shoulder” to ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• "The Master's love for Australia continues; my own love is"

  Shoghi Effendi's First Letter to Australia · Various

• "It is all true! Mine eyes have seen the Glory!"

  Louis Gregory’s vision and ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s interpretation · Various

• ">Following the martyrdom of Jesus Christ, among the services Mary Magdalene rendered was that, by some means or other, she secured a meeting with the emperor of Rome.</span><span style="

  Mary Magdalene asked Roman emperor to spare the executioners of Jesus Christ and the Jews who “were responsible for killing Christ” – ‘Abdu’l-Baha relates · Various

• ">(Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, 22 December 1912, London, England recorded by Mahmud Zarqani, His secretary and chronicler during His travels in the West; ‘Mahmud’s Diary’, vol. 2: ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Europe 1912-1913)</span></span></p><p class="

  Mary Magdalene asked Roman emperor to spare the executioners of Jesus Christ and the Jews who “were responsible for killing Christ” – ‘Abdu’l-Baha relates · Various

• "The child saw what the adults had not been looking for."

  On the Chicago Streetcar · Various

• "Friends do not pay each other. Friends exchange."

  The Master with the Immigrant Greengrocer · Various

• "My friend at the corner needs My greeting more than the"

  The Master and the Blind Man · Various

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  May Maxwell sees ‘Abdu’l-Baha for the first time · Various

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  Mírzá Músá: Bahá’u’lláh’s faithful brother, also known as Áqáy-i-Kalím – a brief account of his life by 'Abdu'l-Baha · Various

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  Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím’s marvellous spiritual experience · Various

• "‘Abdu’l-Karím, are you seeking the Manifestation?"

  Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Karím’s marvellous spiritual experience · Various

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  Mullá Husayn finds “God’s hidden treasure” in Mázindarán · Various

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  Mulla Husayn is led to Shiraz in his quest for the Promised One · Various

• ">“Mulla Husayn, the first Letter of the Living, surnamed the Bábu'l-Báb (the Gate of the Gate); designated as the"

  Mulla Husayn’s childhood and youth · Various

• "on whom eulogies, prayers and visiting Tablets of a number equivalent to thrice the volume of the Qur'án had been lavished by the pen of the Báb; referred to in these eulogies as"

  Mulla Husayn’s childhood and youth · Various

• "the dust of whose grave, that same Pen had declared, was so potent as to cheer the sorrowful and heal the sick; whom"

  Mulla Husayn’s childhood and youth · Various

• "of the Bábí Dispensation, envy, and will continue to envy till the"

  Mulla Husayn’s childhood and youth · Various

• "whom the Kitáb-i-Íqán acclaimed as the one but for whom"

  Mulla Husayn’s childhood and youth · Various

• "to whom Siyyid Kazim had paid such tribute that his disciples suspected that the recipient of such praise might well be the promised One Himself …"

  Mulla Husayn’s childhood and youth · Various

• ">Mulla Husayn was born in 1813 in Bushruyih in northern Iran. He attended the primary school which was called “maktab"

  Mulla Husayn’s childhood and youth · Various

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  Mulla Husayn’s first assignment · Various

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  No peace in the city of Tabriz on July 9, 1850 – the martyrdom of the Báb · Various

• "I have finished </span><span style="

  No peace in the city of Tabriz on July 9, 1850 – the martyrdom of the Báb · Various

• "said the Báb </span><span style="

  No peace in the city of Tabriz on July 9, 1850 – the martyrdom of the Báb · Various

• "Now you may proceed to fulfil </span><span style="

  No peace in the city of Tabriz on July 9, 1850 – the martyrdom of the Báb · Various

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  No peace in the city of Tabriz on July 9, 1850 – the martyrdom of the Báb · Various

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  Opposition to 'Abdu'l-Baha's proposed marriage · Various

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  Quddús’ amazing ability to pen copious writings – their recital and tributes by Mulla Husayn provided daily spiritual food at Fort Tabarsi · Various

• ">Say: He is God alone; </span><span style="

  Quddús’ amazing ability to pen copious writings – their recital and tributes by Mulla Husayn provided daily spiritual food at Fort Tabarsi · Various

• ">God the eternal! </span><span style="

  Quddús’ amazing ability to pen copious writings – their recital and tributes by Mulla Husayn provided daily spiritual food at Fort Tabarsi · Various

• ">He begetteth not, and He is not begotten; </span><span style="

  Quddús’ amazing ability to pen copious writings – their recital and tributes by Mulla Husayn provided daily spiritual food at Fort Tabarsi · Various

• ">And there is none like unto Him."

  Quddús’ amazing ability to pen copious writings – their recital and tributes by Mulla Husayn provided daily spiritual food at Fort Tabarsi · Various

• ">In the above passage, the word “eternal"

  Quddús’ amazing ability to pen copious writings – their recital and tributes by Mulla Husayn provided daily spiritual food at Fort Tabarsi · Various

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  Roses from ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• ">The next morning while I <span style="

  Roses from ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• ">- Ali Kuli Khan <span style="

  Roses from ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  Rúhá Khánum, one of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá's daughters, was seriously ill when He left Alexandria, Egypt, aboard S. S. Cedric for the West on March 25, 1912 · Various

• ">Ruhiyyih Khanum often described </span><span style="

  Ruhiyyih Khanum’s first encounter with Shoghi Effendi · Various

• ">her first encounter with the youthful Guardian</span><span style="

  Ruhiyyih Khanum’s first encounter with Shoghi Effendi · Various

• "> mother were in the old Pilgrim </span><span style="

  Ruhiyyih Khanum’s first encounter with Shoghi Effendi · Various

• ">- Violette Nakhjavani <span style="

  Ruhiyyih Khanum’s first encounter with Shoghi Effendi · Various

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  Sarah’s Vision of Peace · Various

• "The woman's face glowed with excitement and she continued."

  Sarah’s Vision of Peace · Various

• "In looking for an emblem, we wanted something that would call to everybody, and we felt that the Message that had been brought to the world by prophet after pophet was the message of Peace."

  Sarah’s Vision of Peace · Various

• "Thou will become the envy of the queens of all regions and wilt be the rival of all the celebrated people of the world."

  Sarah’s Vision of Peace · Various

• "This is hallowed ground made so by your vision and sacrifice."

  Sarah’s Vision of Peace · Various

• "This is where the first Baha'i University will be built."

  Sarah’s Vision of Peace · Various

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  Shoghi Effendi had vivid and significant dreams during childhood · Various

• "Be steadfast; the prayers of every believer in the world"

  Shoghi Effendi's Letter to the German Friends · Various

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  Shoghi Effendi’s desire to write even at a very young age · Various

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  Shoghi Effendi’s desire to write even at a very young age · Various

• "Then I must tell you that I am a soldier in the army of the king."

  Slow to Tell the Truth -- adapted from a story told by 'Abdu'l-Baha · Various

• "In reality, I am a minister of the king's council."

  Slow to Tell the Truth -- adapted from a story told by 'Abdu'l-Baha · Various

• "Do you know who, in fact, I am?"

  Slow to Tell the Truth -- adapted from a story told by 'Abdu'l-Baha · Various

• "Now I tell you, in very truth, I am the King himself!"

  Slow to Tell the Truth -- adapted from a story told by 'Abdu'l-Baha · Various

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  Tablets of the Divine Plan changed the lives of an American couple · Various

• "Lord, here I am! Lord, here I am!"

  Tablets of the Divine Plan changed the lives of an American couple · Various

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  Tabriz, July 1850: Anís accompanies the Báb in facing the firing squad · Various

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  Táhirih proclaims “the Day of Resurrection” – ‘Abdu’l-Baha describes the circumstances · Various

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  Táhirih’s arrest in Qazvin and subsequent release through the intervention of Baha’u’llah · Various

• "to convey to you this message: ‘Suffer these visitors to enter, inasmuch as I Myself have invited them to meet Me.’"

  The amazing circumstances through which a noted Bábí merchant in Tabriz was able to visit the Báb seven time when He was under house arrest - and - Mulla Husayn’s earlier prediction · Various

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  The amazing interaction between the Báb and the leader of the escort sent by the governor of Fars to arrest the Báb · Various

• ">I bowed my consent and carried out his desire."

  The amazing interaction between the Báb and the leader of the escort sent by the governor of Fars to arrest the Báb · Various

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  The Báb’s miracle: - the transformation of ‘Alí Khán, the warden of the castle of Máh-Kú · Various

• ">circa 1930s: The castle <br />of <span style="

  The Báb’s miracle: - the transformation of ‘Alí Khán, the warden of the castle of Máh-Kú · Various

• ">He [‘Alí Khán, the warden in charge of the castle of Máh-Kú] discharged his functions with the utmost severity and refused to allow any of the avowed disciples of the Báb to reside, even for one night, in the town of Máh-Kú. </span><p></p><p><span style="

  The Báb’s miracle: - the transformation of ‘Alí Khán, the warden of the castle of Máh-Kú · Various

• ">- Siyyid Husayn the Báb’s amanuensis (Quoted by Nabil in ‘The Dawn-Breakers’, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)</span></p><p><span style="

  The Báb’s miracle: - the transformation of ‘Alí Khán, the warden of the castle of Máh-Kú · Various

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  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

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  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

• ">(Abdu'l-Baha, 'Memorials of the Faithful')</span><span style="

  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

• "she said to the assembled Bábis. <span style="

  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

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  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

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  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

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  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

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  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

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  The Blast of the Trumpet – the amazing way in which a woman announced the birth of a new cycle for humanity · Various

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  The Egyptian Baha’i merchant who wanted to see Baha’u’llah · Various

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  The first Baha’i in England goes on pilgrimage · Various

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  The first example of Mulla Husayn’s amazing heroism and swordsmanship · Various

• "the number is as yet incomplete."

  The first example of Mulla Husayn’s amazing heroism and swordsmanship · Various

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  The Furutan family's first pilgrimage during WW II · Various

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  The Furutan family's first pilgrimage during WW II · Various

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  The King and the Gardener – a story told by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• "How long before they will bear fruit?"

  The King and the Gardener – a story told by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• ">it is now my duty to plant for the benefit of the next generation."

  The King and the Gardener – a story told by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• "How can that be? You are surely a very old man."

  The King and the Gardener – a story told by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  The King summons the Báb · Various

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  The King summons the Báb · Various

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  The King summons the Báb · Various

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  The King summons the Báb · Various

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  The King summons the Báb · Various

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  The King summons the Báb · Various

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  The King summons the Báb · Various

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  The Master and little children -- a few occasions witnessed by a Western pilgrim · Various

• ">(Mary L. Lucas, ‘</span><span style="

  The Master and little children -- a few occasions witnessed by a Western pilgrim · Various

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  The sifter of wheat in Isfahan · Various

• "donned the robe of discipleship"

  The sifter of wheat in Isfahan · Various

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  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

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  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

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  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

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  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

• "Do you believe in immortality?"

  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

• "And the voice said, “Get a stone."

  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

• "stone which the builders refused"

  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

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  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

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  The stone that became the “Cornerstone” of the House of Worship in Chicago · Various

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  The story of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – Part 1: 1844-1908 · Various

• "I received them from my Father."

  The story of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – Part 1: 1844-1908 · Various

• "‘Abdu'l-Baha had a wonderful sense of humor.</span><span face="

  The story of ‘Abdu’l-Baha – Part 1: 1844-1908 · Various

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  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

• ", in Vol. 1, issue 9 of the </span><i style="

  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

• ">Star of the West </i><span style="

  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

• "Would you like to have a baby?"

  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

• "I should be so happy to have one-"

  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

• "Speak, do you choose to have a child, you may choose!"

  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

• "in order that she might indeed be able to"

  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

• "just as the Master promised. </span><span style="

  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

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  The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum) · Various

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  The story of how Baha’u’llah’s Father received the title of “Buzurg” - “the Great” – from the King of Persia · Various

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  The story of how Baha’u’llah’s Father received the title of “Buzurg” - “the Great” – from the King of Persia · Various

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  The story of how Mullá Husayn was able to discover Baha’u’llah in Tihran and have delivered to Him a scroll containing passages from the Writings of the Báb · Various

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  The story of how Mullá Husayn was able to discover Baha’u’llah in Tihran and have delivered to Him a scroll containing passages from the Writings of the Báb · Various

• ">“What of His rank and position?"

  The story of how Mullá Husayn was able to discover Baha’u’llah in Tihran and have delivered to Him a scroll containing passages from the Writings of the Báb · Various

• "apart from befriending the poor and the stranger."

  The story of how Mullá Husayn was able to discover Baha’u’llah in Tihran and have delivered to Him a scroll containing passages from the Writings of the Báb · Various

• ">“In which of the scripts of His father does He excel?"

  The story of how Mullá Husayn was able to discover Baha’u’llah in Tihran and have delivered to Him a scroll containing passages from the Writings of the Báb · Various

• ">“His favourite script is shikastih-nasta’liq."

  The story of how Mullá Husayn was able to discover Baha’u’llah in Tihran and have delivered to Him a scroll containing passages from the Writings of the Báb · Various

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  The story of Tahirih’s house arrest and her bold prediction of upcoming release · Various

• ">Upon their return from Karbila, <span style="

  The story of Tahirih’s house arrest and her bold prediction of upcoming release · Various

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  The story of the Báb · Various

• ">His life to proclaim </span><span style="

  The story of the Báb · Various

• "Him Whom God shall make manifest."

  The story of the Báb · Various

• ">Yet in spite of these remarks and of his unfailing admiration and respect for the Báb, Háji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad did not recognize His station for many years and remained uncommitted to His Cause.</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• "how could it be possible for my nephew to become a prophet?"

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">The following day Háji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad arrived with his questions. He worded them under four headings, namely:</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">1. The Day of Resurrection. Is there to be corporeal resurrection? The world is replete with injustice. How are the just to be requited and the unjust punished?</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">2. The twelfth Imam was born at a certain time and lives on. There are traditions, all supporting the belief. How can this be explained?</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">3. Interpretation of holy texts. This Cause does not seem to conform with beliefs held throughout the years. One cannot ignore the literal meaning of holy texts and scripture. How can this be explained?</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">4. Certain events, according to the traditions that have come down from the Imams, must occur at the advent of the Qá’im. Some of these are mentioned. But none of these has happened. How can this be explained?</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">This was the gist of the questions presented to Bahá’u’lláh, by the uncle of the Báb. </span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">Háji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad was so affected by meeting Bahá'u'lláh that he immediately wrote a letter to His son, Háji Mirza Muhammad-Taqi, in which he said:</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">[1] The Báb was referred to as Háji because of His pilgrimage to Mecca.</span></span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">[2] An eminent divine of great learning who became a devoted follower of the Báb in the first year of His Declaration, and later recognized the station of Bahá'u'lláh and embraced His Faith.</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">[3] An uncle of Muhammad who refused to acknowledge His Prophethood and was hostile to Him.</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

• ">[4] Some of the Imams of Shí'ah Islam, including Imam Husayn, are buried in Karbila, Najaf, Kazimayn and Samarra.</span></p><p><span style="

  The story of the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude) · Various

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  The story of two brothers - “two most blessed souls”: their virtues are praised by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  The sudden arrest of the Báb and its agonizing impact on His wife – as recalled by Khadijih Bagum · Various

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  The tragic death of Mirza Mihdi, “The Purest Branch” · Various

• ">[an intimate of the Holy family who years later wrote a book about the time he spent with the family of Abdu’l-Baha]</span> recounts how, on one of these visits <span style="

  This is not an ordinary child, verily this is a precious and darling angel! · Various

• "this is not an ordinary child, verily this is a precious and darling angel!"

  This is not an ordinary child, verily this is a precious and darling angel! · Various

• ">The Guardian refers to Mirza Aqa Jan as"

  "...thousands of worlds of incomparable splendor were unveiled to my eyes…” - a spiritual experience by a youth · Various

• "thousands of oceans of </span><span style="

  "...thousands of worlds of incomparable splendor were unveiled to my eyes…” - a spiritual experience by a youth · Various

• "when there are so many who have none?"

  Trying to get ‘Abdu’l-Baha a new coat · Various

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  Two dreams that ‘Abdu’l-Baha had about two months before He passed away · Various

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  Two dreams that ‘Abdu’l-Baha had about two months before He passed away · Various

• ">- Shoghi Effendi <span style="

  Two dreams that ‘Abdu’l-Baha had about two months before He passed away · Various

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  Two examples of Baha’u’llah being fully aware of one’s thoughts and feelings · Various

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  Two examples of Baha’u’llah being fully aware of one’s thoughts and feelings · Various

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  Two examples of Baha’u’llah being fully aware of one’s thoughts and feelings · Various

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  Visiting the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. – an example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s thoroughness · Various

• ">During our dinner at 7:30 <span style="

  Visiting the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. – an example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s thoroughness · Various

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  What happened to the regiment that executed the Báb · Various

• "Each flower is a small word from the Creator. Let us not"

  The Master and the Flowers · Various

• "The pilgrim who falls sick on My doorstep is the family I"

  The Master with the Sick Pilgrim · Various

• "At My table, all are guests of the Lord."

  The Table of the Master · Various

• "My sister is My right hand and My second self."

  The Greatest Holy Leaf at Her Brother's Side · Various

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  A lesson in forgiveness… · Various

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  A Living Spirit: Thomas Breakwell · Various

• ">On a hot summer day in 1901, a young man named <a href="

  A Living Spirit: Thomas Breakwell · Various

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  A Living Spirit: Thomas Breakwell · Various

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  A Living Spirit: Thomas Breakwell · Various

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  A Living Spirit: Thomas Breakwell · Various

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  A Living Spirit: Thomas Breakwell · Various

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  A Prayer for Mirza Ja'far · Various

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  A Prayer for Mirza Ja'far · Various

• "and Mirza Ja'far will come alive."

  A Prayer for Mirza Ja'far · Various

• ">from a story by 'Abdu'l-Baha, ‘</span><span style="

  A Prayer for Mirza Ja'far · Various

• ">Memorials of the Faithful’; The Central Figures, Baha’u’llah, Core Curriculum, vol.1) </span><span style="

  A Prayer for Mirza Ja'far · Various

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  A very unique Child is born · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the Poor Man · Various

• ">(Adapted from ‘The Portals to Freedom"

  ‘Abdu’l-Baha and the Poor Man · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s temporary separation from Baha’u’llah · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha - the Knight of Light · Various

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  ‘Abdu’l-Baha - the Knight of Light · Various

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  An Amazing Night · Various

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  An example of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s very generous nature when He was seven years old · Various

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  An example of 'Abdu'l-Baha's forgiving nature... · Various

• "See if the shops are open now."

  An example of 'Abdu'l-Baha's forgiving nature... · Various

• "Everything in this world changes. Can I do anything for you?"

  An example of 'Abdu'l-Baha's forgiving nature... · Various

• "If only they could follow me to Damascus!"

  An example of 'Abdu'l-Baha's forgiving nature... · Various

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  Arty from the Arctic · Various

• "What will your mother have to say?"

  Arty from the Arctic · Various

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  Ásíyih Khánum – Bahá'u'lláh's wife and “companion in every one of His worlds” · Various

• ">Resting place of Ásíyih Khánum<br />and son Mirza Mihdi</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="

  Ásíyih Khánum – Bahá'u'lláh's wife and “companion in every one of His worlds” · Various

• ">Bahá'u'lláh said that she was to be"

  Ásíyih Khánum – Bahá'u'lláh's wife and “companion in every one of His worlds” · Various

• ">Her daughter, Bahíyyih Khánum, said she was"

  Ásíyih Khánum – Bahá'u'lláh's wife and “companion in every one of His worlds” · Various

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  Ásíyih Khánum – Bahá'u'lláh's wife and “companion in every one of His worlds” · Various

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  At the Prison Gates · Various

• ">Enter the prison! Wasn't it impossible?<span style="

  At the Prison Gates · Various

• "Baha'i, he had actually meant this devoted<span style="

  At the Prison Gates · Various

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  Attributes of God · Various

• "Does anyone know what this is?"

  Attributes of God · Various

• ">“Can anyone pronounce this word?"

  Attributes of God · Various

• "Yes, Sarah, tell us how to pronounce it."

  Attributes of God · Various

• ">“Very good. Can anyone tell me what an attribute is?"

  Attributes of God · Various

• ">Sarah raised her hand quickly. “Love. God is love."

  Attributes of God · Various

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  Attributes of God · Various

• ">“Did you carry out your assignment this week?"

  Attributes of God · Various

• ">“That's wonderful, Sarah. And what about you, Phillip?"

  Attributes of God · Various

• ">“That was very nice. How about you, Anisa?"

  Attributes of God · Various

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  Badí’s Sacrifice · Various

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  Badí – the messenger of Baha’u’llah · Various

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  Baha’u’llah receives His Mission from God · Various

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  Baha'u'llah and the Money Belt · Various

• "Every living thing should have its own free place in the"

  The Songbird in the Garden · Various

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  Baha'u'llah - The King of Kings · Various

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  Baha'u'llah - The King of Kings · Various

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  Baha'u'llah - The King of Kings · Various

• "What of His rank and position?"

  Baha'u'llah - The King of Kings · Various

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  Beebird’s Song · Various

• ">Beebird was ashamed as he left the Goddess."

  Beebird’s Song · Various

• "I hope so, Beebird. Your song is too beautiful to silence."

  Beebird’s Song · Various

• ">She removed the vine from Beebird's beak.</span><span style="

  Beebird’s Song · Various

• "Beebird, how do you feel about your song now?"

  Beebird’s Song · Various

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  Beebird’s Song · Various

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  Being Good and… · Various

• "If you had been Good, this never would have happened!"

  Being Good and… · Various

• "I do believe it’s truly spring!"

  Being Good and… · Various

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  Being Good and… · Various

• ">“What do you mean, Grandma? Why, it’s just afraid to try!"

  Being Good and… · Various

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  Brothers and Sisters for Twinkle · Various

• "We’ll settle all that later, dear. </span><span style="

  Brothers and Sisters for Twinkle · Various

• "You must purr nicely for her, Rufus"

  Brothers and Sisters for Twinkle · Various

• "Would they be like a real brother or sister?"

  Brothers and Sisters for Twinkle · Various

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  Chicago Temple: - The stone that was rejected by the builder · Various

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  Dream of Many Fishes · Various

• ">The fish did not hurt Him</span><span style="

  Dream of Many Fishes · Various

• ">so did every fish. When He turned the other way</span><span style="

  Dream of Many Fishes · Various

• ">Baha'u'llah. If we do what Baha</span><span style="

  Dream of Many Fishes · Various

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  Faithful Isfandiyar · Various

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  Father of the Poor · Various

• ">The head shepherd drew 'Abdu'l-Baha aside."

  Father of the Poor · Various

• ">'Abdu'l-Baha thought a moment and then decided."

  Father of the Poor · Various

• ">But Mirza Husayn-'Ali only laughed."

  Father of the Poor · Various

• ">(Written by Gail Radley, illustrated by Jay Kenyatta-Anderson; </span><span style="

  Father of the Poor · Various

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  Flowers for the Ancient King · Various

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  Flowers for the Ancient King · Various

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  Giving one’s material possessions for the sake of God · Various

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  Giving one’s material possessions for the sake of God · Various

• "Don't argue with me - just give me the beds!"

  Giving one’s material possessions for the sake of God · Various

• "Won't you come in to have some tea?"

  Giving one’s material possessions for the sake of God · Various

• "Won't you come to visit with me?"

  Giving one’s material possessions for the sake of God · Various

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  Glimpses of the Báb · Various

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  Glimpses of the Báb · Various

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  Glimpses of the Báb · Various

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  Glimpses of the Báb · Various

• ">His wife once found Him praying late at night."

  Glimpses of the Báb · Various

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  God’s Will · Various

• "I wish that car would go faster!"

  God’s Will · Various

• ">Alain glanced at Papa in disbelief."

  God’s Will · Various

• "Every new year is a chance to plant a new seed."

  Good Deeds for Naw-Rúz · Various

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  Happy Holidays! · Various

• "So many religions are having holy days."

  Happy Holidays! · Various

• "What does your family do for Purim, Marty?"

  Happy Holidays! · Various

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  Happy Holidays! · Various

• ">Rosemary looked at the group."

  Happy Holidays! · Various

• ">Michael leaned forward on his elbows."

  Happy Holidays! · Various

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  Happy Holidays! · Various

• ">I brought some for all of us. Happy Naw-Ruz!"

  Happy Holidays! · Various

• "You're really a good cook, Mas'ud!"

  Happy Holidays! · Various

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  Humble Mouse Meets the First Ray of Sun · Various

• "Where do all of these things come from?"

  Humble Mouse Meets the First Ray of Sun · Various

• "Why would I need to know that?"

  Humble Mouse Meets the First Ray of Sun · Various

• "The first ray of sun came to me!"

  Humble Mouse Meets the First Ray of Sun · Various

• "What did it say, Humble Mouse?"

  Humble Mouse Meets the First Ray of Sun · Various

• "I want to learn about this ‘Maker,' too."

  Humble Mouse Meets the First Ray of Sun · Various

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  Kindness to animals · Various

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  Koae · Various

• "Why does he choose such a place for his home?"

  Koae · Various

• "Because his thoughts are high!"

  Koae · Various

• "Every creature has a place in God's garden."

  The Master and the Stray Puppy · Various

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  Moonshine & Nightshadow · Various

• "You, I shall call Nightshadow."

  Moonshine & Nightshadow · Various

• "It is because they find your dark face ugly and are afraid of you."

  Moonshine & Nightshadow · Various

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  One Meritorious Act · Various

• "One hot day in August, Naneh-joon </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">permission to accompany her on her daily </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">turning nine,' she </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">may come with me to the mosque. But </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">well and be silent as a mouse </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">chin with one </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">through the alleys of southern Tihrán. </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">I was going </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">drew near to </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">he mosque, we </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">' The sound of people shouting </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">she hissed. 'The mulla </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">tight grasp. 'Please, Naneh-joon,</span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">home.' I wanted my Naneh-joon back, not </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">Prophet Muhammad,' Naneh-joon said</span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">ized, shutting out the noise </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">forward when an old woman </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">of her into </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">forward and raised her hand to throw her </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">pleaded with the guards surrounding Him</span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">a chance to fling my stone </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">King of Kings turned to His guards an</span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">her not what she </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">welled up in </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">at the words that </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">passed through His </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">I looked up and saw</span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">standing by my </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">She had dropped her stone to the </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">hold of my hand, </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">back to her house </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">under the blankets. </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">old woman for what </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

• ">done. Then she went </span><span style="

  One Meritorious Act · Various

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  One of Baha’u’llah’s granddaughters remembers His loving nature… · Various

• "O God, guide me, protect me, make of me a shining lamp and"

  A Quiet Prayer · Various

• "Yes, my love. That is the secret."

  A Quiet Prayer · Various

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  Sacred Moments with Grandpa · Various

• "You know, the one about the blue paper."

  Sacred Moments with Grandpa · Various

• "Grandpa, what does 'clergy' mean?"

  Sacred Moments with Grandpa · Various

• "Can you tell me again what a seal is?"

  Sacred Moments with Grandpa · Various

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  Saving Stars · Various

• "Look at all of this junk that washed up on the beach."

  Saving Stars · Various

• "There must be some dead fish up ahead."

  Saving Stars · Various

• "Maybe we’ll find out where the smell is coming from."

  Saving Stars · Various

• ">Suddenly Laura stopped. “I can’t believe it!"

  Saving Stars · Various

• ">Kevin pointed up ahead. “Who is that up there?"

  Saving Stars · Various

• "Do you see a boy near the far side of the cove?"

  Saving Stars · Various

• ">“What does it look like I’m doing?"

  Saving Stars · Various

• "There’s no way that you can save them all."

  Saving Stars · Various

• "If I put this one back in the water, it will live."

  Saving Stars · Various

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  Shaykh Ahmad’s Secret · Various

• ">did not understand just what </span><span style="

  Shaykh Ahmad’s Secret · Various

• ">Let us imagine we are going with Shaykh </span><span style="

  Shaykh Ahmad’s Secret · Various

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  Shining Lamp: Mullá Husayn · Various

• ">Artistic conception of Mullá Husayn; <br />no known photos are available</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table>"

  Shining Lamp: Mullá Husayn · Various

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  Spirit-Arrows · Various

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  Stories from the childhood of Shoghi Effendi · Various

• "May I please have some more tea?"

  Stories from the childhood of Shoghi Effendi · Various

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  Stranger in the Mountains · Various

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  Tahirih - The only woman ‘Letter of the Living’ · Various

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  Tammy and the Butterfly · Various

• "O, I can hardly wait to see what it is!"

  Tammy and the Butterfly · Various

• "Mommy, she called. Do we have any paint?"

  Tammy and the Butterfly · Various

• "To paint the cocoon so it will be pretty."

  Tammy and the Butterfly · Various

• "I think everything ought to be beautiful, even cocoons."

  Tammy and the Butterfly · Various

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  Tammy and the Butterfly · Various

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  Thank you, Isfandiyar · Various

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  Thank you, Isfandiyar · Various

• "clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"

  The Báb’s short stay in Isfahán · Various

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  The Badasht Conference · Various

• ">One day, Bahá'u'lláh was not feeling well and decided to </span><span style="

  The Badasht Conference · Various

• ">remain in His garden. As soon as Quddús heard this news, he </span><span style="

  The Badasht Conference · Various

• ">went to His presence. Gradually other believers came too and </span><span style="

  The Badasht Conference · Various

• ">gathered around Him. Suddenly, a messenger from Táhirih </span><span style="

  The Badasht Conference · Various

• "I do not wish to meet with her anymore!"

  The Badasht Conference · Various

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  The Badasht Conference · Various

• ">[Bahá'u'lláh]</span> has named Táhirih <span style="

  The Badasht Conference · Various

• ">(Written by Lily Ayman, illustrated by Jacki Ayorinde; </span><span style="

  The Badasht Conference · Various

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  The Black Rose · Various

• "clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"

  The Black Rose · Various

• "clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"

  The Black Rose · Various

• "Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues."

  The Broken Cup · Various

• "clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"

  The Dervish · Various

• "clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"

  The Fire Temple · Various

• "clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"

  The Fire Temple · Various

• ">Speaking without fear the young man replied"

  The Fire Temple · Various

• ">Zarathustra's answer was quick and brief:"

  The Fire Temple · Various

• ">The King was not convinced and asked again."

  The Fire Temple · Various

• ">Now Zaratustra spoke up again:"

  The Fire Temple · Various

• ">believe in Him and follow His teachings."

  The Fire Temple · Various

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  The Horse Show · Various

• ">we must sell </span><span style="

  The Horse Show · Various

• ">busily tying a rope into a lasso."

  The Horse Show · Various

• ">by and let Lady be given away to </span><span style="

  The Horse Show · Various

• ">Then an idea </span><span style="

  The Horse Show · Various

• ">The fair grounds were surrounded by hundreds of cars</span><span style="

  The Horse Show · Various

• "And the number is ...</span><span style="

  The Horse Show · Various

• "Then you do not live in Boynton?"

  The Horse Show · Various

• ">Carrie was speechless. A few minutes ag</span><span style="

  The Horse Show · Various

• ">Carrie was bubbling over with happiness."

  The Horse Show · Various

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  The Káshi · Various

• "/></a></div>We are told that in the province of Káshán in Persia the people are very peace-loving, and so gentle are they that violence of any kind is enough to make them very frightened.<p></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "answered the Káshi, shaking with fear, </span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "Yes, you, My friend,’’ answered Bahá’u’lláh.</span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• ">So, although he was very afraid, he buckled on a large sword for who could disobey such a Master? </span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• ">The Káshi was very small and the sword very long. When he tried to walk he nearly fell down, for the long sword kept getting between his legs. </span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• ">Soon the enemy came in sight, shouting fierce cries and waving their swords and guns.</span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "asked the little man, still shaking with fear. </span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "he was told.<span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "Me, go and fight those hundreds of men, and all alone, too? They will kill me and You too. </span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "Go to defeat them, My friend, for you are right and they are wrong. God's ways are not man's ways; you shall defeat them all."

  The Káshi · Various

• ">The little Kashi drew his sword and, waving it in the air,</span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• ">advanced towards the enemy who, on seeing one man come to do battle with them, stopped in amazement. </span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "they asked themselves. </span></p><p><span style="

  The Káshi · Various

• "Are the Bahá'ís so powerful that one man can defeat all of us?"

  The Káshi · Various

• ">When he went back to his Master he saw that He was chuckling to Himself. “You see, little friend, what God can do for us when we are in need or great danger?"

  The Káshi · Various

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  The King's Messenger · Various

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  The King's Messenger · Various

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  The Letter of Certainty · Various

• "Do you have your schoolwork done?"

  The Letter of Certainty · Various

• "clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"

  The Letter of Certainty · Various

• "What does the word ‘Iqán' mean?"

  The Letter of Certainty · Various

• "I want to go play with Keahi now."

  The Letter of Certainty · Various

• "Okay, be back in time for supper."

  The Letter of Certainty · Various

• ">(Written by Duane L. Herrmann and illustrated by Winifred Barnum-Newman; </span><span style="

  The Letter of Certainty · Various

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  The little girl who saw ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• "Mummy, if Jesus were here what would you do?"

  The little girl who saw ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• ">Her mother answered, “I would go to Him as fast as I could!"

  The little girl who saw ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

• ">“Now Precious, what do you mean? How do you know?"

  The little girl who saw ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  The little girl who saw ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  The little girl who saw ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  The Lost Kitten · Various

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  The Man Who Did Not Forget · Various

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  The miracle of the Báb’s last day… · Various

• ">- William Sears <span style="

  The miracle of the Báb’s last day… · Various

• ">(‘The Martyr-Prophet of a World Faith’)<span style="

  The miracle of the Báb’s last day… · Various

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  The Ocean of Knowledge · Various

• ">Again, the old gardener knelt saying:</span><o:p></o:p></p><div class="

  The old man and the king – a story told by ‘Abdu’l-Baha · Various

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  The Prisoner with power · Various

• ">Each of the kids in t</span><span style="

  The Prisoner with power · Various

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  The Prisoner with power · Various

• ">“So, kids, who was able to break one of the chains?"

  The Prisoner with power · Various

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  The Prisoner with power · Various

• ">“But the king made a mistake, didn’t he, Ms. Bates?"

  The Prisoner with power · Various

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  The Prisoner with power · Various

• ">“You mean He just walked out of prison and no one stopped</span><span style="

  The Prisoner with power · Various

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  The Prisoner with power · Various

• "Julie asked, “do you know what I think?"

  The Prisoner with power · Various

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  The Prisoner with power · Various

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  The Proud Helper · Various

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  The Proud Helper · Various

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  The Proud Helper · Various

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  The Puppet Show · Various

• ">- Mahnaz Afshin <span style="

  The Puppet Show · Various

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  The road · Various

• ">By now the man was even angrier than before."

  The road · Various

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  The Rule of Thumb · Various

• ">Once there were four fingers on </span><span style="

  The Rule of Thumb · Various

• ">On the other hand -- no -- on the some hand </span><span style="

  The Rule of Thumb · Various

• ">was a thumb. But how different he was! The fingers that were </span><span style="

  The Rule of Thumb · Various

• ">the hand and not out </span><span style="

  The Rule of Thumb · Various

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  The Servant of God · Various

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  The Servant of God · Various

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  The Shepherd’s Dream · Various

• ">One day at noon Siyyid </span><span style="

  The Shepherd’s Dream · Various

• ">Here is the strange story the Arab told Siyyid </span><span style="

  The Shepherd’s Dream · Various

• ">The shepherd's words made Siyyid </span><span style="

  The Shepherd’s Dream · Various

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  The “Truth” is out there · Various

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  The “Truth” is out there · Various

• "Hey, Sherlock Holmes investigated all the time!"

  The “Truth” is out there · Various

• "This will be my investigating hat!"

  The “Truth” is out there · Various

• ">Mama laughed and gave her a hug."

  The “Truth” is out there · Various

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  The “Truth” is out there · Various

• "I found it! It's the letter R!"

  The “Truth” is out there · Various

• "But, what about the empty jar, Mama?"

  The “Truth” is out there · Various

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  The Wide Wide Universe · Various

• ">There is another idea that says the “Big Bang"

  The Wide Wide Universe · Various

• "The smallest flower is a guest at God's table."

  The Yellow Flower · Various

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  The Young Man in the Green Turban · Various

• ">Here is another thing Siyyid </span><span style="

  The Young Man in the Green Turban · Various

• ">One morning very, very early, just at dawn, Siyyid </span><span style="

  The Young Man in the Green Turban · Various

• ">and spoke to him such words of love that Siyyid </span><span style="

  The Young Man in the Green Turban · Various

• ">How often the one who had gone with Siyyid </span><span style="

  The Young Man in the Green Turban · Various

• "is more manifest than the ray of light."

  The Young Man in the Green Turban · Various

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  Theresa makes Baha’u’llah’s Birthday a special Day · Various

• ">Her brown eyes opened. Her first thought was:"

  Theresa makes Baha’u’llah’s Birthday a special Day · Various

• "What will we do for Baha'u'llah's Birthday?"

  Theresa makes Baha’u’llah’s Birthday a special Day · Various

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  Theresa makes Baha’u’llah’s Birthday a special Day · Various

• ">She found her in the bedroom, writing a letter."

  Theresa makes Baha’u’llah’s Birthday a special Day · Various

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  Theresa makes Baha’u’llah’s Birthday a special Day · Various

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  Time Capsule: - Lord Buddha · Various

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  Time Capsule: - Lord Buddha · Various

• ">Then Siddhartha thought to himself:"

  Time Capsule: - Lord Buddha · Various

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  Time Capsule: - Lord Buddha · Various

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  Two Goodbyes · Various

• ">felt sure that when </span><span style="

  Two Goodbyes · Various

• ">day I mentioned, “When school lets out, Mom and Dad are taking </span><span style="

  Two Goodbyes · Various

• ">but Adam said, </span><span style="

  Two Goodbyes · Various

• "the doctors don't think Mrs. Miller will get well."

  Two Goodbyes · Various

• "I asked. She did not say anything. “She'll die?"

  Two Goodbyes · Various

• "I liked her a </span><span style="

  Two Goodbyes · Various

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  Two Pink Roses for a Little Girl · Various

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  Waiting for the Master · Various

• "I have not gazed on verdure for nine years."

  Waiting for the Master · Various

• "The Master is coming. Go and welcome Him. Hasten. Hasten to attend Him."

  Waiting for the Master · Various

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  Warden of the Báb witnesses a miracle · Various

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  What Is the Color of Love? · Various

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  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• ">He turned and whispered, </span><span style="

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• "Gran'ma says you were a tramp Gran'pa."

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• "The lady heard me and came to the doer."

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• "Yes. Do you wish </span><i style="

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• "And now what are you going to do?"

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• ">Ann and George looked proudly at their Gran'pa."

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• "he said sweeping his hand across the farm."

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• ">(by A, Baram, b</span><span style="

  When Gran’pa was a tramp · Various

• "The light of the sun becomes apparent in each object according"

  Two Mirrors: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Receiving the Light of God · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "to the capacity of that object … One heart may possess the"

  Two Mirrors: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Receiving the Light of God · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "capacity of the polished mirror; another be covered and"

  Two Mirrors: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Receiving the Light of God · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "obscured by the dust and dross of this world."

  Two Mirrors: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Receiving the Light of God · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Consider; we plant a seed. A complete and perfect tree appears"

  Seed and Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Latent Capacity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "from it, and from each seed of this tree another tree can be"

  Seed and Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Latent Capacity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "produced … each one of us may become expressive or"

  Seed and Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Latent Capacity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "representative of all the bounties of life to mankind."

  Seed and Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Latent Capacity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The sick must not be neglected because they are ailing — nay,"

  The Sick Must Not Be Neglected: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Compassion · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "rather, we must have compassion upon them and bring them"

  The Sick Must Not Be Neglected: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Compassion · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The child must not be oppressed or censured because it is"

  The Sick Must Not Be Neglected: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Compassion · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "undeveloped; it must be patiently trained."

  The Sick Must Not Be Neglected: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Compassion · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "So beautiful was she that she was called the Daughter of the"

  The Marriage of Ásíyih Khánum · Lady Blomfield

• "Of all the wives of all the men of His station, she was the"

  The Marriage of Ásíyih Khánum · Lady Blomfield

• "She was small, her white veil falling almost to the ground,"

  Her Eyes Charged with Memories: A Portrait of the Greatest Holy Leaf · Lady Blomfield

• "her eyes charged with memories. She did not speak until she"

  Her Eyes Charged with Memories: A Portrait of the Greatest Holy Leaf · Lady Blomfield

• "had thought a long time, and then she spoke quietly."

  Her Eyes Charged with Memories: A Portrait of the Greatest Holy Leaf · Lady Blomfield

• "When she had finished speaking, she would sit very still. The"

  Her Eyes Charged with Memories: A Portrait of the Greatest Holy Leaf · Lady Blomfield

• "light through the window of the upper room would lie quietly"

  Her Eyes Charged with Memories: A Portrait of the Greatest Holy Leaf · Lady Blomfield

• "The snow was deep, the children cried with the cold, and the"

  The Journey from Tihrán to Baghdád, Winter 1853 · Lady Blomfield

• "The bells of Westminster sounded across the city, and He stood"

  Westminster Bells: The Master Walks in London, 1911 · Lady Blomfield

• "The Master in His turban received the violets, and bent and"

  Among the Children of the East End · Lady Blomfield

• "kissed the small head from which they had come."

  Among the Children of the East End · Lady Blomfield

• "The whole congregation knelt as the Master gave the blessing"

  St. John's Westminster: The Master in an English Pulpit · Lady Blomfield

• "They tore the rings from my mother's ears, the buttons from"

  The Night of the Arrest: Asiyih Khanum's Vigil · Lady Blomfield

• "her dress, the very combs from her hair."

  The Night of the Arrest: Asiyih Khanum's Vigil · Lady Blomfield

• "In one of the rooms thirteen persons, pilgrims and the ladies,"

  I Slept in the Room of Ásíyih Khánum · Lady Blomfield

• "sometimes slept. A shelf was there, on which an agile pilgrim"

  I Slept in the Room of Ásíyih Khánum · Lady Blomfield

• "I am sleeping in the room of Ásíyih Khánum. I was conscious"

  I Slept in the Room of Ásíyih Khánum · Lady Blomfield

• "all night of its benign atmosphere."

  I Slept in the Room of Ásíyih Khánum · Lady Blomfield

• "this is what gives me great joy."

  Corinne True made one of her nine pilgrimages to the Bahá’í Holy Places in… · Various

• "go back and work for the Temple; it is a great work."

  Corinne True made one of her nine pilgrimages to the Bahá’í Holy Places in… · Various

• "Devote yourself to this project – make a beginning, and all will come right."

  Corinne True made one of her nine pilgrimages to the Bahá’í Holy Places in… · Various

• "What I have given to God I will not take back."

  Corinne True recorded what she observed on an early pilgrimage: ‘Arising early… · Various

• "What I have given to God I will not take back."

  Corinne True recorded what she observed on an early pilgrimage: ‘Arising early… · Various

• "there was much darkness in the prison fortress of `Akka!"

  Day by day friends brought offerings of flowers and fruit, so that the dinner… · Various

• "The food was delicious and the fruit and flowers were lovely, but would that we could share some of the courses with those poor and hungry people who have not even one."

  Day by day friends brought offerings of flowers and fruit, so that the dinner… · Various

• "Fear not. Do as you have been bidden, and commit Us to the"

  I Am, I Am, I Am: The Báb's Examination at Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "I am, I am, I am, the promised One! I am the One whose name"

  I Am, I Am, I Am: The Báb's Examination at Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "you have for a thousand years invoked."

  I Am, I Am, I Am: The Báb's Examination at Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "The Word of God can never be subject to the limitations of His"

  I Am, I Am, I Am: The Báb's Examination at Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Think men that when they say, ‘We believe,’ they shall be let"

  I Am, I Am, I Am: The Báb's Examination at Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "alone and not be put to the proof?"

  I Am, I Am, I Am: The Báb's Examination at Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Peerless and unique, as are the words which have streamed from"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "this pen, to be able to reveal, within so short a time and in"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "so legible a writing, so great a number of verses as to equal"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "a fourth, nay a third, of the Qur’án, is in itself an"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Never until this day have I in my heart been firmly convinced"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "of the truth of Islám... I solemnly testify to my belief in"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "the reality of the superhuman power with which this Youth is"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Through the poor and lowly of this land, by the blood which"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "these shall have shed in His path, will the omnipotent"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Sovereign ensure the preservation and consolidate the"

  A Third of the Qur'án: The Báb in Iṣfáhán · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "For a period of no less than nine months, we shall remain"

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "confined in the Jabál-i-Basít, from whence we shall be"

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "transferred to the Jabál-i-Shadíd."

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "The voice of the Báb, as He dictated the teachings and"

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "principles of His Faith, could be clearly heard by those"

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "dwelling at the foot of the mountain."

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "What you have witnessed is true and undeniable."

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "You have walked on foot all the way from your native province"

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "to this place. On foot you likewise must return until you"

  The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "That night the face of the Báb was aglow with joy, a joy such"

  The Volley That Severed the Ropes: The Martyrdom of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "as had never shone from His countenance."

  The Volley That Severed the Ropes: The Martyrdom of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "There, standing before them alive and unhurt, was the"

  The Volley That Severed the Ropes: The Martyrdom of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "companion of the Báb, whilst He Himself had vanished."

  The Volley That Severed the Ropes: The Martyrdom of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Had you believed in Me, O wayward generation, every one of"

  The Volley That Severed the Ropes: The Martyrdom of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "For days we suffered from the scarcity of water. I had to"

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "content myself with the juice of the sweet lemon."

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "During the entire period of approximately two months... whenever"

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "by day or night I chanced to meet either the Báb or Quddús, I"

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "invariably found them together, both absorbed in their work."

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Had I allowed you, you would surely have overtaken and punished"

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "him. But this was not to be... this was decreed by God, the"

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "I am come into this world to bear witness to the glory of"

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "sacrifice... Rejoice, for both I and Quddús will be slain on"

  On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Though your heart be aflame with His love, take heed lest any"

  The Stranger in Karbilá: Shaykh Ḥasan Recognizes Bahá'u'lláh · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "eye discover your inner agitation."

  The Stranger in Karbilá: Shaykh Ḥasan Recognizes Bahá'u'lláh · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "One night, in a dream, these exalted words were heard on"

  The Black Pit: Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "every side: *Verily, We shall render Thee victorious by"

  The Black Pit: Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Thyself and by Thy Pen. Grieve Thou not for that which hath"

  The Black Pit: Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "befallen Thee, neither be Thou afraid, for Thou art in"

  The Black Pit: Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "safety. Erelong will God raise up the treasures of the"

  The Black Pit: Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "earth — men who will aid Thee through Thyself and through"

  The Black Pit: Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Thy Name, wherewith God hath revived the hearts of such as"

  The Black Pit: Bahá'u'lláh in the Síyáh-Chál · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "O thou who art the first to believe in Me! Verily I say, I am"

  There Remains One More: The Letters of the Living · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "the Báb, the Gate of God, and thou art the Bábu’l-Báb, the gate"

  There Remains One More: The Letters of the Living · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Seventeen Letters have thus far enlisted under the standard of"

  There Remains One More: The Letters of the Living · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "the Faith of God. There remains one more to complete the number."

  There Remains One More: The Letters of the Living · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Adorn your head with My green turban, the emblem of My lineage,"

  The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "and, with the Black Standard unfurled before you, hasten to the"

  The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "I, together with seventy-two of my companions, shall suffer"

  The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "death for the sake of the Well-Beloved."

  The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "The Baqíyyatu’lláh will be best for you if ye are of those who"

  The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "If you insist on inflicting your punishment, I offer Myself"

  The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "as a willing Victim of your chastisement."

  The Black Standard Unfurled: Mullá Ḥusayn Marches to Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Mounted on his horse, with his sword unsheathed, Mullá Ḥusayn"

  The Last Charge: Mullá Ḥusayn Falls at Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "led the remnant of his companions out of the gate."

  The Last Charge: Mullá Ḥusayn Falls at Ṭabarsí · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Today we shall have all the water we require for our bath..."

  Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Whoso is willing to partake of the cup of martyrdom, let him"

  Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "How utterly unaware are these boastful aggressors of the power"

  Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "I wash my hands of all responsibility for any harm that may"

  Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "befall this man... You are free to do what you like with him."

  Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Would that my mother were with me — the splendour of my"

  Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "There appeared above the horizon of the East that luminous Star"

  The Star Above the Horizon: Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í's Mission · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "of Divine guidance, Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í."

  The Star Above the Horizon: Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í's Mission · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "In the year 1233 A.H. the world, unaware of its significance,"

  The Star Above the Horizon: Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í's Mission · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "witnessed the birth of Him who was destined to confer upon it"

  The Star Above the Horizon: Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í's Mission · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Arise and perform this mission, for I declare you equal to"

  Scatter Far and Wide: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Charge · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "this task. The Almighty will graciously assist you."

  Scatter Far and Wide: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Charge · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "is of noble lineage. He is a descendant of the Prophet of God,"

  Scatter Far and Wide: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Charge · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "of the family of Háshim. He is young in age."

  Scatter Far and Wide: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Charge · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Scatter far and wide, detach yourselves from all earthly"

  Scatter Far and Wide: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Charge · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "things, and humbly and prayerfully beseech your Lord to sustain"

  Scatter Far and Wide: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Charge · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Well is it with every one of you who will quaff the cup of"

  Scatter Far and Wide: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Charge · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Scatter far and wide, set out from your homes, search Him"

  The Hour Is Near: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Days at Karbilá · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "out, and rest not until you have found Him."

  The Hour Is Near: Siyyid Káẓim's Last Days at Karbilá · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "I bear witness that these words which I have read proceed from"

  I Bear Witness These Words Are From the Same Source: Siyyid Yaḥyá Recognizes the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "the same Source as that of the Qur'án."

  I Bear Witness These Words Are From the Same Source: Siyyid Yaḥyá Recognizes the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "This day is the day on which the fetters of the past are"

  Without Veil at Badasht: Ṭáhirih's Public Declaration · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "My disciples are nearer and dearer to me than mine own kin."

  The Fort at Khájih: Vaḥíd's Defense at Nayríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "-- I have written. What else should be done? Now is not the time for you to read and write, it is the time for jumping about and chanting"

  Dr · Various

• "The Master wrote to me to chant that He may hear me! I am doing my best!"

  Dr · Various

• "If I come to America, Juliet, will you invite Me to see such waterfalls?"

  Driving home, we came to the most spectacular waterfall, foaming down a black precipice · Various

• "We must be equal to the hardships of traveling like a soldier in the path of Truth and not be slaves to bodily ease and comfort."

  During part of the Master’s trip East in the United States ‘Again He would not… · Various

• "be too severely cold for them."

  During the whole drive He was always discovering lovely things and with vivid… · Various

• "as a ransom for those of His loved ones who yearned for, but were unable to attain, His presence."

  During those days one hundred years ago Bahá’u’lláh was enduring His… · Various

• "This is the day whereon he that was created of the light of Bahá has suffered martyrdom, at a time when he lay imprisoned at the hands of his enemies."

  During those days one hundred years ago Bahá’u’lláh was enduring His… · Various

• "Thou art, verily, the trust of God and His treasure in this land. Erelong will God reveal through thee that which He hath desired."

  During those days one hundred years ago Bahá’u’lláh was enduring His… · Various

• "I have, O my Lord, offered up that which Thou hast given Me, that Thy servants may be quickened, and all that dwell on earth be united."

  During those days one hundred years ago Bahá’u’lláh was enduring His… · Various

• "The followers of My Cause must show forth such a character,"

  The Epistle's Counsels on Trustworthiness · Bahá'u'lláh

• "such a degree of trustworthiness, that the very mention of"

  The Epistle's Counsels on Trustworthiness · Bahá'u'lláh

• "their name shall, in every quarter, be a guarantee of"

  The Epistle's Counsels on Trustworthiness · Bahá'u'lláh

• "the storm and stress that have agitated my life since ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's passing..."

  Every time one goes into the details of any particular period in the Guardian's… · Various

• "Why, Mrs. Ober, how can you laugh when this dreadful thing has happened to you?"

  Five years after Grace told me these stories she went on an extensive teaching… · Various

• "Because I am a Bahá’í do you know what that means?"

  Five years after Grace told me these stories she went on an extensive teaching… · Various

• "Will be here one week after which I go to Boston and Montréal, then come to California. We'll see you there in June, God willing."

  For long weeks and months, it was not clear whether He would go to California or not · Various

• "If all the assemblies unite in California it may be the means of attracting Him here after all."

  For long weeks and months, it was not clear whether He would go to California or not · Various

• "Your telegram was the cause of much happiness, God willing, I will depart for the Western part. Give these glad tidings each and all."

  For long weeks and months, it was not clear whether He would go to California or not · Various

• "'Alí Khán felt such mortification that he was impelled to relax"

  The Warden of Máh-Kú: 'Alí Khán's Change of Heart · Shoghi Effendi

• "the severity of his discipline, as an atonement for his past"

  The Warden of Máh-Kú: 'Alí Khán's Change of Heart · Shoghi Effendi

• "Their first act every morning was to seek a place where they"

  The Warden of Máh-Kú: 'Alí Khán's Change of Heart · Shoghi Effendi

• "could catch a glimpse of His face."

  The Warden of Máh-Kú: 'Alí Khán's Change of Heart · Shoghi Effendi

• "Bastinadoed in the namáz-khánih of the mujtahid of that town"

  Bastinadoed in the Masjid of Ámul: Bahá'u'lláh's Second Imprisonment · Shoghi Effendi

• "I am the Word which the Qá’im is to utter, the Word which shall"

  The Trumpet-Blast at Badasht: Ṭáhirih's Unveiling · Shoghi Effendi

• "put to flight the chiefs and nobles of the earth!"

  The Trumpet-Blast at Badasht: Ṭáhirih's Unveiling · Shoghi Effendi

• "This is verily the capital of the owl's realm, where thou wilt hear no sound, save only the echo of his repeated calls."

  Gracious God · Various

• "Give a tea for Him what else can you do?"

  Harry Randall, the brother of Loulie Mathews, was a man of wealth and affairs · Various

• "But how can I? Ruth is ill. I'm busy. How on earth - ?"

  Harry Randall, the brother of Loulie Mathews, was a man of wealth and affairs · Various

• "‘Abdu’l-Bahá will see Mr. Randall."

  Harry Randall's wife, Ruth, had tuberculosis in both lungs and, having been… · Various

• "This is a beautiful house, someday it will become a beautiful home."

  Harry Randall's wife, Ruth, had tuberculosis in both lungs and, having been… · Various

• "not to mind if your wife does not like sweet things, that she will when she is better."

  Harry Randall's wife, Ruth, had tuberculosis in both lungs and, having been… · Various

• "What have you been doing? You are so well!"

  Harry Randall's wife, Ruth, had tuberculosis in both lungs and, having been… · Various

• "was borne to its last resting-place on the shoulders of His loved"

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "the long train of mourners, amid the sobs and moans of many a"

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "grief-stricken heart, wended its slow way up the slopes of Mt."

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "Carmel to the Mausoleum of the Báb."

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "The coffin was then removed to one of the chambers of the Shrine,"

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "and there lowered, sadly and reverently, to its last resting-place"

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "in a vault adjoining that in which were laid the remains of the"

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "sorrowing for His death, but rejoicing also for His life."

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "never known a more united expression of regret and respect than was"

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "called forth by the utter simplicity of the ceremony."

  Ten Thousand Mourners on Mount Carmel: The Funeral of 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Lady Blomfield

• "This went on until the day Bahá’u’lláh ascended. At that supreme"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "affliction, that shattering calamity, Nabíl sobbed and trembled and"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "cried out to Heaven. He found that the numerical value of the word"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "*shidád* — year of stress — was 309, and it thus became evident"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "that Bahá’u’lláh foretold what had now come to pass."

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Utterly cast down, hopeless at being separated from Bahá’u’lláh,"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "fevered, shedding tears, Nabíl was in such anguish that anyone seeing"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "him was bewildered. He struggled on, but the only desire he had was"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "to lay down his life. He could suffer no longer; his longing was"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "aflame in him; he could stand the fiery pain no more. And so he"

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "became king of the cohorts of love, and he rushed into the sea."

  The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Mírzá Ḥusayn-‘Alí, Who afterwards assumed the title of Bahá’u’lláh"

  Born in the Vazír's House: The Birth of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "(i.e. Glory of God), was the eldest son of Mírzá ‘Abbás of Núr, a"

  Born in the Vazír's House: The Birth of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "Vazír or Minister of State.... He was born in Tihrán (Teheran),"

  Born in the Vazír's House: The Birth of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "the capital city of Persia, between dawn and sunrise on the 12th"

  Born in the Vazír's House: The Birth of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "He showed wonderful wisdom and knowledge."

  Born in the Vazír's House: The Birth of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "Leave him to himself. Such a position is unworthy of him. He has"

  Born in the Vazír's House: The Birth of Bahá'u'lláh · J. E. Esslemont

• "Mírzá ‘Alí-Muḥammad, Who afterwards assumed the title of Báb (i.e."

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "Gate), was born at Shíráz, in the south of Persia, on the 20th of"

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "He was noted for great personal beauty and charm of manner, and"

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "also for exceptional piety, and nobility of character."

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "He was unfailing in His observance of the prayers, fasts and other"

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "ordinances of the Muḥammadan religion, and not only obeyed the"

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "letter, but lived in the spirit of the Prophet’s teachings."

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "He married when about twenty-two years of age. Of this marriage one"

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "son was born, who died while still an infant, in the first year of"

  A Merchant of Shíráz: The Birth of the Báb · J. E. Esslemont

• "O ye who are sincere! O ye who are firm! O ye who are steadfast!"

  The Day Given to Him: Origins of the Day of the Covenant · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Blessed is the soul who is firm in the path!"

  The Day Given to Him: Origins of the Day of the Covenant · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "O thou who art the first to believe in Me! Verily I say, I am the"

  Two Hours and Eleven Minutes After Sunset: The Declaration of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Báb, the Gate of God, and thou art the Bábu’l-Báb, the gate of"

  Two Hours and Eleven Minutes After Sunset: The Declaration of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "This night, this very hour will, in the days to come, be celebrated"

  Two Hours and Eleven Minutes After Sunset: The Declaration of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "as one of the greatest and most significant of all festivals."

  Two Hours and Eleven Minutes After Sunset: The Declaration of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Enter therein in peace, secure."

  Two Hours and Eleven Minutes After Sunset: The Declaration of the Báb · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "During those days Bahá'u'lláh, instead of being sad or depressed,"

  The Garden of Najíb Páshá: First Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "showed the greatest joy, dignity and power. His followers became"

  The Garden of Najíb Páshá: First Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "happy and enthusiastic, and great crowds came to pay their respects"

  The Garden of Najíb Páshá: First Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "to Him. All the notables of Baghdád, even the Governor himself, came"

  The Garden of Najíb Páshá: First Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "to honor the departing prisoner."

  The Garden of Najíb Páshá: First Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí begged Sám Khán to be placed in such a manner"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "that his own body would shield that of the Báb."

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "There, standing before them alive and unhurt, was the companion of"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "the Báb, whilst He Himself had vanished uninjured from their sight."

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "They set out in a frenzied search for Him, and found Him,"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "eventually, seated in the same room which He had occupied the night"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "before, engaged in completing His interrupted conversation, with"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "Had you believed in Me, O wayward generation, every one of you"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "would have followed the example of this youth, who stood in rank"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "above most of you, and willingly would have sacrificed yourselves"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "in My path. The day will come when you will have recognised Me;"

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "that day I shall have ceased to be with you."

  Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz · Nabíl-i-A'ẓam

• "In the sacred laws of God, in every cycle and dispensation there are"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "blessed feasts, holidays and workless days. On such days all kinds of"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "occupations, commerce, industry, agriculture, etc., should be"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "suspended. All should rejoice together, hold general meetings, become"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "as one assembly, so that the national oneness, unity and harmony may"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "be demonstrated in the eyes of all."

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "As it is a blessed day it should not be neglected, nor deprived of"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "results by making it a day devoted to the pursuit of mere pleasure."

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "During such days institutions should be founded that may be of"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "permanent benefit and value to the people.... Today there is no"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "result or fruit greater than guiding the people. Undoubtedly the"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "friends of God, upon such a day, must leave tangible philanthropic"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "or ideal traces that should reach all mankind and not pertain only"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "to the Bahá’ís. In this wonderful dispensation, philanthropic affairs"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "are for all humanity without exception, because it is the"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "manifestation of the mercifulness of God. Therefore, my hope is that"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "the friends of God, every one of them, may become as the mercy of"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Naw-Rúz Talk in Alexandria · J. E. Esslemont

• "With the development of the Bahá’í administrative order since the"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Nineteen Day Feast, observed on the"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "first day of each Bahá’í month, has assumed a very special"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "importance, providing as it does not only for community prayer and"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "reading from the Holy Books, but also for general consultation on"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "all current Bahá’í affairs and for the association of the friends"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "together. This Feast is the occasion when the Spiritual Assembly"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "makes its reports to the community and invites both discussion of"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "plans and suggestions for new and better methods of service."

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "All should rejoice together, hold general meetings, become as one"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "assembly, so that the national oneness, unity and harmony may be"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "demonstrated in the eyes of all.... Today there is no result or"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "fruit greater than guiding the people. Undoubtedly the friends of"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "God, upon such a day, must leave tangible philanthropic or ideal"

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "traces that should reach all mankind."

  Three Portions: The Heart of the Nineteen Day Feast · J. E. Esslemont

• "During those days Bahá’u’lláh, instead of being sad or depressed,"

  The Family Arrives in the Garden: Ninth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "showed the greatest joy, dignity and power. His followers became"

  The Family Arrives in the Garden: Ninth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "happy and enthusiastic, and great crowds came to pay their respects"

  The Family Arrives in the Garden: Ninth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "to Him. All the notables of Baghdád, even the Governor himself,"

  The Family Arrives in the Garden: Ninth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "came to honor the departing prisoner."

  The Family Arrives in the Garden: Ninth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "During those days Bahá’u’lláh, instead of being sad or depressed,"

  The Caravan to Constantinople: Twelfth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "showed the greatest joy, dignity and power. His followers became"

  The Caravan to Constantinople: Twelfth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "happy and enthusiastic, and great crowds came to pay their respects"

  The Caravan to Constantinople: Twelfth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "to Him. All the notables of Baghdád, even the Governor himself, came"

  The Caravan to Constantinople: Twelfth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "to honor the departing prisoner."

  The Caravan to Constantinople: Twelfth Day of Riḍván · J. E. Esslemont

• "can I bear to sleep in luxury when so many of the poor have not even shelter?"

  He does not permit his family to have luxuries · Various

• "A friend of mine has been martyred, and I am very grieved. I go out alone."

  He had left orders that none were to be turned away, but one who had twice… · Various

• "As long as this robe is with me, I shall not find rest. To find rest, I must give it up."

  He then related a story about detachment: the Persian friends travel mostly on foot · Various

• "Yes, what can we do for you? Is there anything that we can do for you?"

  He wasn’t interested in the man · Various

• "I am Charles Dunning. I am the pioneer from the Orchney Islands."

  He wasn’t interested in the man · Various

• "Well, I said to Charles, we are getting ready to go down to have dinner with the Guardian, and do you think maybe you want to change your clothes and clean up a little bit for the Guardian."

  He wasn’t interested in the man · Various

• "You’re a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh, and you deserve to be at the head of this table."

  He wasn’t interested in the man · Various

• "Who are you? what am I doing here? what was all that you just said?"

  How an Iranian Mullah became a Bahá’í · Various

• "Who was the guy who just ran away?"

  How an Iranian Mullah became a Bahá’í · Various

• "It is a beautiful dream. It is good that you and others are able to dream it. But I - I have dreamed too much and too often and the awakening has always been too bitter. I cannot dream again and wake again."

  Howard Colby Ives (my father) first heard of the Faith through Clarence Moore… · Various

• "Howard, you must meet Him and I am sure all will be well with you."

  Howard Colby Ives (my father) first heard of the Faith through Clarence Moore… · Various

• "Father's tone betrayed his hope - but Clarence sighed and shook his head."

  Howard Colby Ives (my father) first heard of the Faith through Clarence Moore… · Various

• "saw the Face of His Heavenly Father in every face"

  Howard Colby Ives observed, ‘I have before spoken of His unfailing courtesy · Various

• "I think He is the most perfect gentleman I have ever know."

  Howard Colby Ives observed, ‘I have before spoken of His unfailing courtesy · Various

• "as if offering a gift to a king."

  Howard Ives wrote, ‘In all of my many opportunities of meeting, of listening to… · Various

• "What is your opinion of modern war?"

  HUDSON MAXIM AWOKE with a swollen cheek and bags under his eyes · Various

• "Do you consider the next great national war necessary?"

  HUDSON MAXIM AWOKE with a swollen cheek and bags under his eyes · Various

• "Fewer are killed in modern engagements than in the battles of ancient times; the range is longer and the action less deadly."

  HUDSON MAXIM AWOKE with a swollen cheek and bags under his eyes · Various

• "the after effects even more dreadful than the initial shock. . . . The country suffers beyond all power of estimation; agriculture is crippled, abandoned; sustenance fails, poverty and suffering continue long afterward."

  HUDSON MAXIM AWOKE with a swollen cheek and bags under his eyes · Various

• "is not so great as expected. Most of its force is expended upward into the air. It is impossible to mass men close enough to it for a full utilization of its energy."

  HUDSON MAXIM AWOKE with a swollen cheek and bags under his eyes · Various

• "Even at this young age He surpasses mature men."

  Husayn-‘Ali [later known as Bahá’u’lláh] was born November 12, 1817, at dawn… · Various

• "the soothsayer promised, “your son will achieve supreme ascendancy over it [the world of being]. Wherever He may please, He will proceed unhindered."

  Husayn-‘Ali [later known as Bahá’u’lláh] was born November 12, 1817, at dawn… · Various

• "'the city is the world of bodies."

  Husayn-‘Ali [later known as Bahá’u’lláh] was born November 12, 1817, at dawn… · Various

• "As the small boat approached the wall the city walls of"

  Across the Bay to 'Akká: Louis Gregory's Pilgrimage Arrival · Louis G. Gregory

• "‘Akká rose, in their old sandstone, to meet me."

  Across the Bay to 'Akká: Louis Gregory's Pilgrimage Arrival · Louis G. Gregory

• "Following a natural impulse, my knee was bent reverently before"

  My Knee Was Bent Reverently: Louis Gregory Meets the Master · Louis G. Gregory

• "Him. Feeling Him bend over me, I knew that He touched my head"

  My Knee Was Bent Reverently: Louis Gregory Meets the Master · Louis G. Gregory

• "The weariness of the long journey, the suspense, and the"

  My Knee Was Bent Reverently: Louis Gregory Meets the Master · Louis G. Gregory

• "excitement of landing for the first time at an Oriental port,"

  My Knee Was Bent Reverently: Louis Gregory Meets the Master · Louis G. Gregory

• "were all forgotten in His Presence."

  My Knee Was Bent Reverently: Louis Gregory Meets the Master · Louis G. Gregory

• "Keep your face turned towards the Kingdom and fear nothing!"

  My Knee Was Bent Reverently: Louis Gregory Meets the Master · Louis G. Gregory

• "I stood in the small chamber of the Shrine, a long way from"

  The Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel: Gregory's Visit · Louis G. Gregory

• "Charleston, and the silence was the loudest thing I have ever"

  The Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel: Gregory's Visit · Louis G. Gregory

• "O SON OF SPIRIT! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure,"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 1: A Pure, Kindly and Radiant Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 1: A Pure, Kindly and Radiant Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "ancient, imperishable and everlasting."

  Hidden Word, Arabic 1: A Pure, Kindly and Radiant Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF BEING! With the hands of power I made thee and with"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 12: With My Hands I Made Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "the fingers of strength I created thee; and within thee have I"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 12: With My Hands I Made Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "placed the essence of My light. Be thou content with it and"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 12: With My Hands I Made Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "seek naught else, for My work is perfect and My command is"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 12: With My Hands I Made Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "binding. Question it not, nor have a doubt thereof."

  Hidden Word, Arabic 12: With My Hands I Made Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF SPIRIT! Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 13: Noble Have I Created Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 13: Noble Have I Created Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF SPIRIT! The best beloved of all things in My sight is"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "the knowledge of thy neighbour. Ponder this in thy heart; how"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "it behoveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes."

  Hidden Word, Arabic 2: The Best Beloved of All Things · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF MAN! Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF SPIRIT! I created thee rich, why dost thou bring"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me?"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "Out of the clay of love I moulded thee, how dost thou busy"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 3: The Most Luminous Word · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF MAN! Wert thou to speed through the immensity of"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 32: Wert Thou to Speed Through the Immensity of Space · Bahá'u'lláh

• "space and traverse the expanse of heaven, yet thou wouldst"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 32: Wert Thou to Speed Through the Immensity of Space · Bahá'u'lláh

• "find no rest save in submission to Our command and humbleness"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 32: Wert Thou to Speed Through the Immensity of Space · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF MAN! Love Me, that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 4: Love Me, that I May Love Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "not, My love can in no wise reach thee. Know this, O servant."

  Hidden Word, Arabic 4: Love Me, that I May Love Thee · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF BEING! Thy heart is My home; sanctify it for My"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 5: My Mansion is the Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "descent. Thy spirit is My place of revelation; cleanse it for"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 5: My Mansion is the Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF MAN! My eternity is My creation, I have created it"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 7: The Best Beloved · Bahá'u'lláh

• "for thee. Make it the garment of thy temple. My unity is My"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 7: The Best Beloved · Bahá'u'lláh

• "handiwork; I have wrought it for thee; clothe thyself"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 7: The Best Beloved · Bahá'u'lláh

• "therewith, that thou mayest be to all eternity the revelation"

  Hidden Word, Arabic 7: The Best Beloved · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O YE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD! Know, verily, that an unforeseen"

  Hidden Word, Persian 1: Temple of My Love · Bahá'u'lláh

• "calamity is following you, and that grievous retribution"

  Hidden Word, Persian 1: Temple of My Love · Bahá'u'lláh

• "awaiteth you. Think not the deeds ye have committed have been"

  Hidden Word, Persian 1: Temple of My Love · Bahá'u'lláh

• "blotted from My sight. By My beauty! All your doings hath My"

  Hidden Word, Persian 1: Temple of My Love · Bahá'u'lláh

• "pen graven with open characters upon tablets of chrysolite."

  Hidden Word, Persian 1: Temple of My Love · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O FRIEND! In the garden of thy heart plant naught but the"

  Hidden Word, Persian 3: O Friend, In the Garden of Thy Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "rose of love, and from the nightingale of affection and desire"

  Hidden Word, Persian 3: O Friend, In the Garden of Thy Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "loosen not thy hold. Treasure the companionship of the"

  Hidden Word, Persian 3: O Friend, In the Garden of Thy Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "righteous and eschew all fellowship with the ungodly."

  Hidden Word, Persian 3: O Friend, In the Garden of Thy Heart · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O CHILDREN OF ADAM! Holy words and pure and goodly deeds"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory. Strive that your"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "deeds may be cleansed from the dust of self and hypocrisy and"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "find favour at the court of glory; for ere long the assayers"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the Adored One,"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "accept naught but absolute virtue and deeds of stainless"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "purity. This is the day-star of wisdom and of divine mystery"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "that hath shone above the horizon of the divine will. Blessed"

  Hidden Word, Persian 32: O Children of Adam, Holy Words · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF DUST! Verily I say unto thee: Of all men the most"

  Hidden Word, Persian 4: The Best Beloved of Hearts · Bahá'u'lláh

• "negligent is he that disputeth idly and seeketh to advance"

  Hidden Word, Persian 4: The Best Beloved of Hearts · Bahá'u'lláh

• "himself over his brother. Say, O brethren! Let deeds, not"

  Hidden Word, Persian 4: The Best Beloved of Hearts · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O COMPANION OF MY THRONE! Hear no evil, and see no evil,"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak no evil,"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "not the faults of others that thine own faults may not"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "appear great; and wish not the abasement of anyone, that"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "thine own abasement be not exposed. Live then the days of"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "thy life, that are less than a fleeting moment, with thy"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "mind stainless, thy heart unsullied, thy thoughts pure, and"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "thy nature sanctified, so that, free and content, thou"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "mayest put away this mortal frame, and repair unto the"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "mystic paradise and abide in the eternal kingdom for"

  Hidden Word, Persian 44: One Truly Wise Companion · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O SON OF BEING! My love is My stronghold; he that entereth"

  Hidden Word, Persian 66: With Joy and Fragrance · Bahá'u'lláh

• "therein is safe and secure, and he that turneth away shall"

  Hidden Word, Persian 66: With Joy and Fragrance · Bahá'u'lláh

• "O FRIEND! Thou art the day-star of the heavens of My"

  Hidden Word, Persian 7: O Friend, Thou Art the Day-Star · Bahá'u'lláh

• "holiness, let not the defilement of the world eclipse thy"

  Hidden Word, Persian 7: O Friend, Thou Art the Day-Star · Bahá'u'lláh

• "splendour. Rend asunder the veil of heedlessness, that from"

  Hidden Word, Persian 7: O Friend, Thou Art the Day-Star · Bahá'u'lláh

• "behind the clouds thou mayest emerge resplendent and array"

  Hidden Word, Persian 7: O Friend, Thou Art the Day-Star · Bahá'u'lláh

• "all things with the apparel of life."

  Hidden Word, Persian 7: O Friend, Thou Art the Day-Star · Bahá'u'lláh

• "Why should I believe in Bahá’u’lláh?"

  I asked ‘Abdu’l-Bahá one day: "Why should I believe in Bahá’u’lláh?" He looked… · Various

• "God will answer the prayer of every servant if that prayer is urgent. His mercy is vast, illimitable. He answers the prayers of all His servants."

  I have a friend in Toronto who was invited to be the best-man at a wedding in… · Various

• "in which He glorified personal cleanliness and urged the avoidance of anything tending towards habits of self-indulgence."

  I remember as though it were yesterday another illustration of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's… · Various

• "He will tell me how to overcome this habit."

  I remember as though it were yesterday another illustration of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's… · Various

• "was indeed a work of evil, by base hands wrought; truly one of the"

  I remember when I was a girl the news came to Isfahan from Nabil that… · Various

• "Wherefore the delay in the marriage?"

  I remember when I was a girl the news came to Isfahan from Nabil that… · Various

• "I can arrange about the room. I pray Thee, let me have the honour of preparing a place for the Master and His bride."

  I remember when I was a girl the news came to Isfahan from Nabil that… · Various

• "The room is now ready, O Master."

  I remember when I was a girl the news came to Isfahan from Nabil that… · Various

• "Mathnavi would become seventy volumes"

  I remember when I was a girl the news came to Isfahan from Nabil that… · Various

• "Come back early this afternoon, the wedding must take place today."

  I remember when I was a girl the news came to Isfahan from Nabil that… · Various

• "How I wish I could believe that."

  I spend much of my time travelling, visiting many countries and meeting Bahá’ís… · Various

• "Prayer is a ladder by which everyone can ascend to heaven."

  I spend much of my time travelling, visiting many countries and meeting Bahá’ís… · Various

• "Where is the nearest florist shop?"

  I think this is the first story I heard from Inez Greeven, at her home in… · Various

• "Now imagine. A conservative American woman is going across Paris at 5 in the morning to bring flowers and money to another conservative American woman."

  I think this is the first story I heard from Inez Greeven, at her home in… · Various

• "Today I received 700 pages of minutes and records from different parts of the world, and I had to read them all."

  I want to give you just one day in the Guardian’s life so you can appreciate a… · Various

• "Well, how is the Cause developing in Canada? How is it progressing? How many centers do you have? How many spiritual assemblies do you have? And how many groups do you have?"

  I want to give you just one day in the Guardian’s life so you can appreciate a… · Various

• "Well, Shoghi Effendi, I don’t know."

  I want to give you just one day in the Guardian’s life so you can appreciate a… · Various

• "Well, you don’t know, but I do know, and I’ll tell you what it was."

  I want to give you just one day in the Guardian’s life so you can appreciate a… · Various

• "that your relationship will be of the second kind"

  I was asked to say a few words to the dear South African believers who are here today · Various

• "O God, make me a flower in Thy garden"

  I was asked to say a few words to the dear South African believers who are here today · Various

• ", in other words, we say, we like the Cause."

  I was asked to say a few words to the dear South African believers who are here today · Various

• "Really, I don't want to say, but I think I'm better than the others. I think I'm more beautiful, I think I have a more beautiful scent. I don't want to talk about it, but... never mind..."

  I was asked to say a few words to the dear South African believers who are here today · Various

• "I have no name, it doesn't matter. I don't have colour, it doesn't matter. I am from the sun. My job is to be faithful and to carry the light of the sun, the heat of the sun. That is my duty. And I am doing it."

  I was asked to say a few words to the dear South African believers who are here today · Various

• "Soil, give me good soil, water, give me good water, light and sun, I want more light."

  I was asked to say a few words to the dear South African believers who are here today · Various

• "My instructions were that everything should be divided into two parts. How is it that there are three?"

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "Such a thing is out of the question. This you must not require, for it cannot be complied with. We gave our word to Bahá’u’lláh that not so much as a copper coin would be accepted."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "Let us leave this matter for the present. Is there any further disagreement among you?"

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "what has become of the money that was left?"

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "All the property was in their hands; I knew nothing of what was going on -- I had no hint of it. They did whatever they pleased."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "Is such a thing possible, that the late Haji had no ready funds?"

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "As for the third share, I had them put it in a separate apartment, close it off, and affix a seal to the door. The key I brought to Bahá’u’lláh."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "It was accomplished only through Your confirmations. Otherwise it could not have been completed in a year. However, a difficulty has arisen."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "He told them. Then they begged and entreated Him to accept that share Himself and expend it for charitable purposes of His own choice. He answered:"

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "That is no concern of ours, even if You have it thrown into the sea. We will not loose our hold from the hem of Your garment and we will not cease our importunities until You accede to our request."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "I have now accepted this third share; and I have given it to Mirza Musa, your brother, but on the condition that, from this day forward, he will speak no more of any claim against yourselves."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "An empty purse, but in our sleeve a hoard."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "Unless You accept, in a very short time Mirza Musa will scatter it all to the winds. For his own good, he should not have access to this wealth."

  I went to the house of the late Haji · Various

• "I am exceedingly sorry to trouble you, but pray have a little patience with our requests tonight, for tomorrow night we shall be the guests of God."

  I wish to tell you the story of two martyrs; one was a Persian nobleman, a… · Various

• "There is no need for this commotion. Why such ado about our death? Verily, this is our wedding feast and we are very happy."

  I wish to tell you the story of two martyrs; one was a Persian nobleman, a… · Various

• "This man was possessed by an evil spirit."

  I wish to tell you the story of two martyrs; one was a Persian nobleman, a… · Various

• "Why are these people so happy?"

  In 1914 the Master wrote to the friends in Denver concerning how to convey the… · Various

• "Your name is Bahiyyih. Bahiyyih means light, but unless you have something within you, something back of it, there is no light."

  In 1919, when Margaret Randall, who came to be known as Bahiyyih, was but… · Various

• "If that old man comes into this house I'll have the doorman throw him out!"

  In Arches of the Years, Marzieh Gail writes about Dr · Various

• "Now I can get my hands on the ringleader of this bunch!"

  In Arches of the Years, Marzieh Gail writes about Dr · Various

• "If you could have heard the wretch mumbling his miserable excuses!"

  In His almost off-hand brushing aside of a cruelty, in the ineffable sweetness… · Various

• "Never think of it again. Send your two sons to see me. I want to meet your sons."

  In His almost off-hand brushing aside of a cruelty, in the ineffable sweetness… · Various

• "into any other family than mine."

  In His almost off-hand brushing aside of a cruelty, in the ineffable sweetness… · Various

• "coming and going of diverse people"

  In late May 1912, in New York, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was evicted from His hotel because,… · Various

• "when the people of the hotel saw His great kindness and favor at the time of His departure, they were ashamed of their conduct and begged Him to stay longer, but He would not accept."

  In late May 1912, in New York, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was evicted from His hotel because,… · Various

• "John, do you see that tall man in the third row, center? He is the only non-Bahá’í in the room. We need him for our Assembly on Thursday!"

  In that long-ago period when I was first a believer, I went to many places in… · Various

• "Dear Bahá’u’lláh, please come to my aid. We need that man for our Assembly on Thursday."

  In that long-ago period when I was first a believer, I went to many places in… · Various

• "Bahá’u’lláh said, 'The people are wrapped in a strange sleep!'"

  In that long-ago period when I was first a believer, I went to many places in… · Various

• "This was the one thing I did not want Him to ask me about.  I answered, “Well, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, he is not here."

  In the 1970’s I met Inez Greeven · Various

• "Yes, I can see that he is not here.  Where is your husband?"

  In the 1970’s I met Inez Greeven · Various

• "‘Abdu’l-Bahá, he left me for another woman."

  In the 1970’s I met Inez Greeven · Various

• "And because you have forgiven him, God has forgiven him."

  In the 1970’s I met Inez Greeven · Various

• "Dear Co-Worker: Messages from Shoghi Effendi to the Benelux Countries"

  In the 1970’s I met Inez Greeven · Various

• "Immediately, He put His hand in the center of the watermelon and started eating."

  In the afternoon, Fujita and some of the Persians took a short walk around… · Various

• "after a long and unbroken silence"

  In the early summer of 1923 Shoghi Effendi again left Haifa and sought some… · Various

• "my work of service to the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh"

  In the early summer of 1923 Shoghi Effendi again left Haifa and sought some… · Various

• "‘Abdu’l-Bahá in serious danger. Take immediate action."

  In the spring of 1918, I was much startled and deeply disturbed by a telephone… · Various

• "Extend every protection and consideration to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, His family and His friends, when the British march on Haifa."

  In the spring of 1918, I was much startled and deeply disturbed by a telephone… · Various

• "Have to-day taken Palestine. Notify the world that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá is safe."

  In the spring of 1918, I was much startled and deeply disturbed by a telephone… · Various

• "The man looked at her, astonishment and a kind of radiant amusement in his eyes."

  In the very early days Loulie Mathews came into the Faith while ‘Abdu’l-Bahá… · Various

• "See what He gave me! See what He gave me!"

  Into the lives of those He loved spilled ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s love of flowers, which… · Various

• "Because he has chosen you as intercessor, I will hide away his sins, and I will take steps to bring him comfort and peace of mind."

  It happened that during the Baghdad period, the well-known Ilkhani, son of Musa… · Various

• "Be generous to the guests, even should he be an infidel.."

  It is related of Shaykh Mahmud of 'Akka that he 'hated the Bahá’ís · Various

• "Which door but thine can I seek; whose bounty can I hope for but thine?"

  It is related of Shaykh Mahmud of 'Akka that he 'hated the Bahá’ís · Various

• "Shoghi Effendi is a wise man -- but he runs about very much!"

  It may sound disrespectful to say the Guardian was a mischievous child, but he… · Various

• "Leroy, do you really think you could do this?"

  It seems almost inconceivable that Mr · Various

• "I want to congratulate you now"

  It was a short time after Grace told me this story that she went on the… · Various

• "or seek to meet him, at any time, all that person's possessions shall be seized and he shall be imprisoned."

  It was June of 1847 · Various

• "Don't you know that such a foolish attempt on your part will not only involve the loss of your possessions, but will also endanger your very life?"

  It was June of 1847 · Various

• "The Almighty will no doubt compensate you in Tabriz for the loss you sustained in Shiraz."

  It was June of 1847 · Various

• "but seven times can He enable you to partake of the joy of His presence, in return for one visit which you have missed."

  It was June of 1847 · Various

• "Suffer these visitors to enter, inasmuch as I Myself have invited them to meet Me."

  It was June of 1847 · Various

• "You'd better really consider this, Grace ‘Abdu’l-Bahá does not make suggestions lightly."

  It was not long after this that Lua came to Grace and told her that it was the… · Various

• "I know Harlan very well - it was through me he came into the Faith. I can do this easily."

  It was not long after this that Lua came to Grace and told her that it was the… · Various

• "Although I am ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's successor, I am not His equal.  His station is far greater than my own."

  It was the custom of Shoghi Effendi to walk on Mount Carmel, and at times he… · Various

• "What Shoghi Effendi said was very beautiful, but why did it have such an effect on you?"

  It was the custom of Shoghi Effendi to walk on Mount Carmel, and at times he… · Various

• "Jenabe, you are now going to Germany."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "No, Dr Muhajir, I am not going to Germany."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "I am going home to Alaksa. I have been out now for over six months and I am going home."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "We are now down to the last 4 months of the nine year plan and Germany has not won any of its numerical goals of the plan. The only way they can possibly reach their goals is by mass teaching. You are a mass teacher so you are going to Germany."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "Last opportunity to win goals nine year plan. Mass teaching, mass teacher Jenabe Caldwell arriving. Give every support. Dr Muhajir."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "Dr Muhajir, I will need at least the three months to get my teachers and train them to do the teaching"

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "Bring your Alaskans. They are already trained."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "It will take a fortune to bring over the Alaskan Bahá’ís to Germany."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "Dr Muhajir if I go to Hamburg they won't even give me the time of day let alone their money."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "All-praise and glory be to God Who, through the power of His might, hath delivered His creation from the nakedness of non-existence and clothed it with the mantle of life."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "How is it that you came for such a long time?"

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "What did you have to do to come?"

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "I had to drop out of my University and I had only 3 months left to go to get my degree.  This means next fall I must go back, pay again the tuition, and do the whole thing over again."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "The moth is a sacrifice to the candle. The spring is a sacrifice to the thirsty one. The sincere lover is a sacrifice to the loved one and the longing one is a sacrifice to the beloved."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "What happened to bring you here?"

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "I got this beautiful love letter asking me to come and I went right over to the phone and called my neighbour and asked her to feed my cats, and here I am."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "I got this letter and I went to my boss and asked for time off and he told me that it was a good time as business was slow. So here I am."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "I asked for time off and the boss said no way, so I quit and here I am."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "I got this very beautiful love letter and I called my mother-in-law and told her to feed her son and take care of the grandchildren. I was going on a nine-year plan and wold be gone for three months."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "The essence of Bahá’u’lláh's Teaching is all-embracing love, for love includeth every excellence of humankind."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "You could feel this intense divine and spiritual love all around us. After about 2 hours this person asked if he could please be a Bahá’í."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "Make my heart overflow with love for Thy creatures ..."

  It was the last four months of the nine-year plan and I [Jenabe Caldwell] had… · Various

• "The Universal Language of the Spirit"

  John [Bosch] was present on November 19 at the Master's last public talk;… · Various

• "Oh, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, I came three thousand miles to see you."

  John took the first train East, fretting because it didn't go fast enough · Various

• "I came eight thousand miles to see you."

  John took the first train East, fretting because it didn't go fast enough · Various

• "By the morning the household had set down its grief and taken"

  At the Bedside of Marjorie Morten: Juliet Records a Healing · Juliet Thompson

• "We walked in silence, and the silence was full."

  A Walk in the Night: Juliet Beside the Master · Juliet Thompson

• "Come tomorrow and paint, Juliet."

  Paint My Servitude to God: Juliet Thompson and the Portrait · Juliet Thompson

• "I want you to paint My Servitude to God."

  Paint My Servitude to God: Juliet Thompson and the Portrait · Juliet Thompson

• "He looked at me as if He had always known me, and as if He had"

  Paris 1901: Juliet's First Meeting · Juliet Thompson

• "I had come up the stair an artist, and I came down it"

  Paris 1901: Juliet's First Meeting · Juliet Thompson

• "I had brought Him my sin, and He laughed it away."

  The Master Laughs at Juliet's Confession · Juliet Thompson

• "He has laughed away the heaviest thing I had been carrying."

  The Master Laughs at Juliet's Confession · Juliet Thompson

• "I do not know how He did it. I know only that it is gone."

  The Master Laughs at Juliet's Confession · Juliet Thompson

• "But ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the cake is for your birthday."

  Juliet Thompson and other Bahá’ís decided to give the Master a birthday party,… · Various

• "You will find that you can always talk to them about the love of God."

  Just before Mrs C left the household of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in ‘Akka, ‘He came into… · Various

• "Well now, you do not know Japanese."

  Kanichi Yamamoto had become a Bahá’í in Hawaii in 1902 and wanted to write… · Various

• "So what are we to do with this letter?"

  Kanichi Yamamoto had become a Bahá’í in Hawaii in 1902 and wanted to write… · Various

• "The same thing you do with other letters"

  Kanichi Yamamoto had become a Bahá’í in Hawaii in 1902 and wanted to write… · Various

• "We will rely on the Blessed Beauty and will write him a reply."

  Kanichi Yamamoto had become a Bahá’í in Hawaii in 1902 and wanted to write… · Various

• "He made an outstanding head. It doesn't look like the Master – very faint likeness. Great power to the shoulders. A great radiance in the face."

  Khalil Gibran was a celebrated Lebanese poet and painter who happened to live… · Various

• "He had been asked to speak and when his turn came, he jumped onto the platform with his face covered in tears and said: I declare, that ‘Abdu’l- Bahá is the Manifestation of God for this day!"

  Khalil Gibran was a celebrated Lebanese poet and painter who happened to live… · Various

• "You are all very old! I am very young!"

  Lady Blomfield cited another instance of His delightful humour: ‘One day after… · Various

• "which shall break their power in pieces."

  Later, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá encountered a group of young people, to whom he told this… · Various

• "God shall wipe away all tears."

  Later in the morning He sent for me · Various

• "bloweth where it listeth and we know not whence it cometh or whither it goeth"

  Later in the morning He sent for me · Various

• "His words in English sink into your very soul. What I lose by not understanding Persian!"

  Later in the morning He sent for me · Various

• "Very welcome! Very welcome! It is good that you have come"

  Later that day, a group of Californians, including Helen Goodall, Ella Cooper… · Various

• "I am not afraid to try anything for You, my Lord."

  Later that evening, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá called Dr · Various

• "Why this is just what I've been seeking for many years! You see, we had a Persian rug just like this one, but it was burned in a fire and ever since, my wife has been broken–hearted over it. This will surely make her very happy."

  Later that evening, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá called Dr · Various

• "How could I think of marrying Harlan Ober?"

  Lua came to Grace and told her that it was the wish of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that she… · Various

• "I'm only repeating ‘Abdu’l- Bahá's request"

  Lua came to Grace and told her that it was the wish of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that she… · Various

• "You'd better really consider this, Grace, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá does not make suggestions lightly."

  Lua came to Grace and told her that it was the wish of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that she… · Various

• "But what does He want me to do? Write to Harlan Ober, whom I scarcely know – and propose to him? How could I? Oh, Lua I do want to be obedient but how on earth can I?"

  Lua came to Grace and told her that it was the wish of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that she… · Various

• "I know Harlan very well – it was through me he came into the Faith. I can do this easily."

  Lua came to Grace and told her that it was the wish of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that she… · Various

• "You sent me to a very terrible place! I almost fainted from the awful smell, the dirty rooms, the degrading condition of that man and his house. I left quickly before I could catch some terrible disease."

  Lua Gestinger, one of the early Bahá’ís of America, tells of an experience she… · Various

• "I don't know. I don't know what I want. I don't know what I came for"

  Many years ago, Mable Rice-Wray Ives lived in Baltimore · Various

• "Come into my sitting room with me, and I'll tell you the whole wonderful story."

  Many years ago, Mable Rice-Wray Ives lived in Baltimore · Various

• "Oh, my Lord, I am a poor man living alone in a cave nearby; but henceforth I shall account myself the happiest of mortals if Thou wilt but come for a moment to my cave and bless it by Thy Presence."

  Mary Bolles (Maxwell) took an early pilgrimage to the prison city · Various

• "I never accept anything for Myself, but if you wish you may bestow it upon a poor man...for the education of his son."

  Mary Lucas, a pilgrim to 'Akka in 1905, found that the Master gave away all the… · Various

• "May Maxwell is really a Bahá’í...She breathed no breath and uttered no word save in service to the Cause of God."

  May Maxwell, the mother of Rúhíyyih Khánum, died only a few weeks after… · Various

• "Our object is universal peace and the unity of humankind. I"

  First Steps Ashore: The Master Arrives in New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "have travelled to Paris and London and now I have come to"

  First Steps Ashore: The Master Arrives in New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "One of these ills is the people’s restlessness and discontent"

  First Steps Ashore: The Master Arrives in New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "under the yoke of the war expenditures of the world’s"

  First Steps Ashore: The Master Arrives in New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "We have come to America that the friends may see Us and"

  Aboard the S.S. Cedric: Crossing to America · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "that the truth may be proclaimed."

  Aboard the S.S. Cedric: Crossing to America · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "We must be kind to the people of the world and forget all"

  All Nations Are One Family: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Farewell from New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "religious, racial, patriotic and political prejudices. The"

  All Nations Are One Family: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Farewell from New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "whole earth is one globe. All nations are one family."

  All Nations Are One Family: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Farewell from New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "Christ commanded Peter to sheathe his sword... But now,"

  All Nations Are One Family: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Farewell from New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "contrary to these teachings, see how Christians are killing"

  All Nations Are One Family: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Farewell from New York · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "Although ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had not planned to speak, He delivered"

  An Unprepared Talk for an Admiral: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Robert Peary · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "a discourse on the perfection of creation, its present defects"

  An Unprepared Talk for an Admiral: 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Robert Peary · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "Science and religion are the two wings upon which man's"

  At Columbia University: A Talk on the Soul · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "intelligence can soar into the heights."

  At Columbia University: A Talk on the Soul · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "Why should not the children of Israel praise now Christ and"

  Why Not Praise Christ and Muḥammad: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Temple Emanu-El · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "The foundation of the religion of God which was laid by Moses"

  Why Not Praise Christ and Muḥammad: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Temple Emanu-El · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "was the cause of eternal honor."

  Why Not Praise Christ and Muḥammad: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Temple Emanu-El · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "This century is the century of science... Does it behoove us"

  Why Not Praise Christ and Muḥammad: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Temple Emanu-El · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "Here, as elsewhere, when both white and colored people were"

  The Place of Honor: Louis Gregory at the Persian Legation Luncheon · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "present, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá seemed happiest."

  The Place of Honor: Louis Gregory at the Persian Legation Luncheon · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "Each one of you is the center of a city you have not yet"

  Minneapolis and St. Paul: The Twin Cities Welcome the Master · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "The greatness of this man is that he laid down power when"

  Pilgrimage to Mount Vernon · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "The outer edifice is a symbol of the inner."

  Only Nettie Tobin's Stone Arrived: The Cornerstone of Wilmette · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "In the small cities are the seeds of the great communities"

  Omaha Stockyards: A Brief Stop on the Plains · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "This city is named for brotherly love. May it become, in"

  Philadelphia: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Baptist Temple · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "our own time, the practice of the name."

  Philadelphia: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Baptist Temple · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "The economic question will be solved when religion has"

  Pittsburgh: The Schenley Hotel Reception · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "trained the human heart to take only its share."

  Pittsburgh: The Schenley Hotel Reception · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "These iron rails will one day bind the human family into a"

  Aboard the Train to Portland · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "The religion of brotherhood, of good will, of friendship"

  Eighteen Hundred Students: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Stanford · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "between men and nations is as old as good thinking and good"

  Eighteen Hundred Students: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Stanford · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "The friendship between the nations begins at the table."

  Washington Reception at the Persian Legation · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's"

  The Discourse at Clark: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Worcester · Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání

• "They remained embraced beneath the earth as they had been in"

  Memorial of Áqá Muḥammad-Báqir and Áqá Muḥammad-Ismá'íl, the Tailor · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Every day there was a new incident, more turmoil, another"

  Memorial of the Consort of the King of Martyrs · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "She took leave of her children and she died."

  Memorial of the Consort of the King of Martyrs · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the bright and fair of face, the Lady of Light."

  Memorial of Footnotes · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "A part of My body is to be buried in Khurásán"

  Memorial of Footnotes · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "He drank in the love of God with his mother’s milk; when yet a"

  Memorial of His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "suckling, he showed an extraordinary attachment to the Blessed"

  Memorial of His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Like a bright lamp, he shone out in that Household. He wished"

  Memorial of His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "neither rank nor office, and had no worldly aims at all."

  Memorial of His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "It was during the sojourn in this latter city that he detected"

  Memorial of His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "from Mírzá Yaḥyá the odor of rebellion. Day and night he tried"

  Memorial of His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Kalím, Kalím! The fame of the Cause of God has reached as far"

  Memorial of His Eminence Kalím (Mírzá Músá) · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "In all this mortal world he had only one possession, his"

  Memorial of Jináb-i-Muníb · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "daughter; and even his daughter he had left behind in Persia,"

  Memorial of Jináb-i-Muníb · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Their two luminous tombs are in ‘Akká."

  Memorial of Mashhadí Ḥusayn and Mashhadí Muḥammad-i-Ádhirbáyjání · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "at our father’s command, to lead her away, alone."

  Memorial of Shamsu’d-Ḍuḥá · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Three months before the child was born we were in Acca."

  Mr · Various

• "When you go to Pharaoh, speak in a moderate, sweet language."

  Mr George Latimer, writing of a visit to the Master, quoted Him as saying, ‘You… · Various

• "Robert, your Lord loves you. God gave you a black skin, but a heart white as snow."

  Mr Robert Turner, the butler of philanthropist Mrs Phoebe Hearst, distinguished… · Various

• "The doctors have prescribed a purgative, and quinine. The fever stops a few days; then it returns. They give me more quinine, but still the fever returns. I am weary of this life, and can no longer do my work. Save me!"

  Muhammad-Hadi was from Isfahan, and as a binder and illuminator of books he had no peer · Various

• "What food would you most enjoy?"

  Muhammad-Hadi was from Isfahan, and as a binder and illuminator of books he had no peer · Various

• "What would you eat with great appetite?"

  Muhammad-Hadi was from Isfahan, and as a binder and illuminator of books he had no peer · Various

• "I directed them to prepare this for him, and I left. The next day he presented himself and told me:"

  Muhammad-Hadi was from Isfahan, and as a binder and illuminator of books he had no peer · Various

• "In short, from then on he was perfectly well for about two years. One day a believer came to me and said:"

  Muhammad-Hadi was from Isfahan, and as a binder and illuminator of books he had no peer · Various

• "I hurried to his bedside and found him with a fever of 42 Centigrade. He was barely conscious."

  Muhammad-Hadi was from Isfahan, and as a binder and illuminator of books he had no peer · Various

• "he said that he knew from experience what he should do. Then he ate his fill of barley soup with whey and braised garlic; and this was the result."

  Muhammad-Hadi was from Isfahan, and as a binder and illuminator of books he had no peer · Various

• "The knowledge of the reason why your sweet baby has been called back is in the mind of God, and will be manifested in His own good time. To the prophets of God the present and the future are as one."

  Munirih Khánum, wife of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, who was the Greatest Branch of the Tree… · Various

• "You are longing to meet us, we are longing to meet you; what is the wisdom in our separation?"

  Munirih Khánum, wife of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, who was the Greatest Branch of the Tree… · Various

• "I am not well, come to Me and bring Khánum."

  My mother, my Aunt Khánum, my three sisters, and I lived in the bigger house at… · Various

• "I am very pleased with you all. My hope is that your deeds will be examples worthy of the Bahá’í Faith - that you may ever be true followers of the Light of God's Law."

  My mother, my Aunt Khánum, my three sisters, and I lived in the bigger house at… · Various

• "The loving devotion of `Andalib has touched me very much, also the love of them all. I hope they will every one be true and faithful servants."

  My mother, my Aunt Khánum, my three sisters, and I lived in the bigger house at… · Various

• "God is Great. He Giveth Life! He Taketh it Again! He Dieth No, but Liveth for Evermore!"

  My mother, my Aunt Khánum, my three sisters, and I lived in the bigger house at… · Various

• "give me a chance to fling my stone in his face!"

  Nabíl-i-A'zam, in his narrative history of the early days of the Faith, The… · Various

• "Deny her not what she regards as a meritorious act in the sight of God."

  Nabíl-i-A'zam, in his narrative history of the early days of the Faith, The… · Various

• "Shoghi Effendi, won’t you eat? You haven’t eaten all day. You’re hungry. You’re getting weak. You should eat. And then you can talk to the friends later about your cablegram and the matters you want to talk about."

  Now, people have asked, “Did the Guardian have any conception that he was going… · Various

• "It doesn’t make any difference. It’s all done."

  Now, people have asked, “Did the Guardian have any conception that he was going… · Various

• "I’m done with the papers. It doesn’t make any difference now. It’s all finished now. I don’t want any more papers."

  Now, people have asked, “Did the Guardian have any conception that he was going… · Various

• "I’m so tired of these papers, I don’t want them anymore. I just don’t want these papers any more. I don’t want them."

  Now, people have asked, “Did the Guardian have any conception that he was going… · Various

• "Don’t talk that way! How can you say these things! You are going to kill your friends here."

  Now, people have asked, “Did the Guardian have any conception that he was going… · Various

• "Tell him so-and-so. Tell him so-and-so."

  Now, people have asked, “Did the Guardian have any conception that he was going… · Various

• "Well, it is not time for any change now."

  Now, people have asked, “Did the Guardian have any conception that he was going… · Various

• "Softly, His Voice Is Calling Now"

  On 5 May, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá met with a group of 35 children in the hotel salon · Various

• "Don't you disturb the Master. He is very, very tired, and don't you make any noise."

  On another occasion, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was resting and May emphatically told Mary,… · Various

• "Today I was resting on the chaise lounge in my bedroom and the door opened. The little girl, Mary Maxwell, came into me and pushed up my eyelids with her small fingers and said"

  On another occasion, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was resting and May emphatically told Mary,… · Various

• "I took her in my arms and placed her head on my chest we both had a good sleep."

  On another occasion, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was resting and May emphatically told Mary,… · Various

• "garden at the feet of the Beloved"

  On August 20th there arrived at Green Acre a young man, dishevelled, tremulous · Various

• "‘Abdu’l-Bahá wishes to see Mr. Mortensen."

  On August 20th there arrived at Green Acre a young man, dishevelled, tremulous · Various

• "Yes, he told me about the Cause."

  On August 20th there arrived at Green Acre a young man, dishevelled, tremulous · Various

• "Riding under and on top of the railway trains."

  On August 20th there arrived at Green Acre a young man, dishevelled, tremulous · Various

• "flouted the customary dictates of a divided society, and was a criminal offense in much of the nation. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá described the Gregorys as"

  On March 25, 1911, at the behest of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Louis Gregory sailed from New… · Various

• "O God! Drown this infidel of a Christian!"

  On one occasion the Master illustrated that prayer can be selfish · Various

• "Why do you not pray for relief?"

  On one occasion the Master illustrated that prayer can be selfish · Various

• "I am praying. I am asking the Lord to answer the prayers of you!"

  On one occasion the Master illustrated that prayer can be selfish · Various

• "If friends go to live in another city, they do not like to hear that their friends are lamenting."

  On our way back to the carriage I said I feared I had made my mother [Elizabeth… · Various

• "There will be no meeting on Mount Carmel to-day...we could not go and leave one of the beloved of God alone and sick. We could none of us be happy unless all the beloved were happy."

  On pilgrimage May Maxwell came to realize that every word and every act of the… · Various

• "I would that I could take your illness upon Myself."

  On the day I arrived at Haifa I was ill with a dysentery which I had picked up… · Various

• "Haji Mirza Jani, We are to be your Guest for three nights. Prepare yourself to receive Us."

  On the eve of the Báb's arrival at Kashan, Haji Mirza Jani, surnamed Parpa, a… · Various

• "We are to be your Guest for three nights. To-morrow is the day of Naw-Ruz; we shall celebrate it together in your home."

  On the eve of the Báb's arrival at Kashan, Haji Mirza Jani, surnamed Parpa, a… · Various

• "to live under the sky, in the sunshine and fresh air."

  On the first afternoon, while driving, he expressed much interest in rural… · Various

• "In my haste to get away from them, I leaped over a 35 foot wall, breaking my leg, to escape the bullets whizzing around about – and wound up in the garden at the feet of the Beloved"

  On the night of 20 August, a horrifying young man came to a meeting at the Kinney's house · Various

• "I returned to become more bewildered, so I thought; and I wondered why."

  On the night of 20 August, a horrifying young man came to a meeting at the Kinney's house · Various

• ", as it was known, Fred hopped a coal train on the Nickel Plate Railway from Cleveland to Buffalo, New York. He arrived around midnight, where he then jumped a train headed for Boston, arriving around nine next morning. Fred continues the story:"

  On the night of 20 August, a horrifying young man came to a meeting at the Kinney's house · Various

• ", not offering to shake hands with me. Coming as I had, and feeling as I did, I was very much embarrassed. After greeting several others Ahmad was about to go to His room, he suddenly turned to me and said in a gruff voice…"

  On the night of 20 August, a horrifying young man came to a meeting at the Kinney's house · Various

• ", and pointed to a chair. I meekly obeyed, feeling rebellious over what had happened. Such a welcome, after making that difficult trip! My mind was in a whirl. It seemed but a minute until Ahmad came down and said;"

  On the night of 20 August, a horrifying young man came to a meeting at the Kinney's house · Various

• "Why, I nearly wilted. I wasn't ready. I hadn't expected to be called until the very last thing . . . He welcomed me with a smile and a warm hand clasp. His first words were"

  On the night of 20 August, a horrifying young man came to a meeting at the Kinney's house · Various

• "Grief passing beloved Fred. Welcome assured in the Abhá Kingdom by Master. His name is forever inscribed Bahá’í history."

  On the night of 20 August, a horrifying young man came to a meeting at the Kinney's house · Various

• "Very difficult English words I speak."

  Once a reporter in London inquired about ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s plans – to his… · Various

• "I cannot tell you, but in all those upon whom I look, I see only my Father’s Face."

  Once ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was asked, ‘Why do all the guests who visit you come away… · Various

• "You see, it is indeed important! Praying is as important to you as breathing."

  Once there was a young man who met a great divine, One day as they walked by… · Various

• "He told me to stay with Mrs. Dealey as long as she needed me, and I am going to obey with all my heart and soul."

  One California Bahá’í, Georgiana Dean, had moved from the West Coast at the… · Various

• "Don’t be sad now, don’t be sad."

  One day a woman came to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with her sorrows · Various

• "the more I trust, the worse things become!"

  One day a woman came to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with her sorrows · Various

• "She does not deserve that God should leave her so helpless! I read the Bible myself; I say the 91st Psalm and the 23rd Psalm every night before I go to bed. I pray too."

  One day a woman came to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with her sorrows · Various

• "How is it possible to be so sure?"

  One day ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, an interpreter, and Howard Colby Ives, at that time a… · Various

• "No one can say with certainty what Jesus meant after all these centuries of misinterpretation and strife."

  One day ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, an interpreter, and Howard Colby Ives, at that time a… · Various

• "I exclaimed. 'I shall never forget the glance of outraged dignity the interpreter cast upon me. It was as though he would say:"

  One day ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, an interpreter, and Howard Colby Ives, at that time a… · Various

• "It is your father’s custom to leave a gift for each shepherd."

  One day Bahá’u’lláh sent ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to inspect the work of the shepherds, who… · Various

• "Please tell me - what does happen to the soul after death?"

  One day, Dr · Various

• "If, my dear friend, you would have been able to understand my answer, you would never have asked the question."

  One day, Dr · Various

• "you do not lose it when you attain the spiritual. When you go upstairs in a house you do not leave the house. The lower floor is under you."

  One day, during the Master’s visit to New York City, He paid a visit to Central Park · Various

• "I spend money only to help people and to serve the Cause of God; and I have never liked distinctions since my childhood."

  One day in early May 1912, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá travelled by train from Pittsburgh,… · Various

• "In the East women wear veils and do all the work."

  One day in London ‘Abdu’l-Bahá heard laughter coming from the kitchen · Various

• "In the West women don’t wear veils, and take good care that the men do at least some of the work. You had better get on with cleaning that silver."

  One day in London ‘Abdu’l-Bahá heard laughter coming from the kitchen · Various

• "You were content to stay in the animal world, We wanted to make you human beings. You were dark, We wanted you illumined; you were dead, We wanted you alive. You were earthly, We wanted you heavenly."

  One day in London the Master gave His listeners an unusual, imaginative, yet… · Various

• "If there is on earth that personage, I shall take up again the burden of my life."

  One day, in London, while several people were talking to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Welcome! Most welcome! I am very much pleased that thou hast come. Be seated."

  One day, in London, while several people were talking to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Be happy! Be happy!...Do not be filled with grief..."

  One day, in London, while several people were talking to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "Though thou be poor, thou mayest be rich in the Kingdom of God."

  One day, in London, while several people were talking to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a man's… · Various

• "I thought I was going to India."

  ‘One day in the Holy Land He told Harlan Ober, an American Bahá’í, that he was… · Various

• "Little man, why art thou weeping?"

  One day, near a village in the mountains, Bahá’u’lláh saw a young boy weeping bitterly · Various

• "and he fell to weeping afresh."

  One day, near a village in the mountains, Bahá’u’lláh saw a young boy weeping bitterly · Various

• "He wrote it for me, the dervish on the mountain."

  One day, near a village in the mountains, Bahá’u’lláh saw a young boy weeping bitterly · Various

• "Oh Sir! The schoolmaster has punished me for writing so badly! And now I have nothing to copy, and I cannot write and I dare not go back to school!"

  One day walking down the mountain, Bahá’u’lláh heard the sound of crying, and… · Various

• "He wrote it for me, the dervish on the mountain"

  One day walking down the mountain, Bahá’u’lláh heard the sound of crying, and… · Various

• "But this is exquisite penmanship! He is no dervish who wrote this, but a royal personage!"

  One day walking down the mountain, Bahá’u’lláh heard the sound of crying, and… · Various

• "Lua, you must never eat material food in the morning until you have had spiritual food."

  One early pilgrim noted that grace was not said before meals · Various

• "Oh Master! Shall we then see thee no more?"

  One evening the Sufis of that country-side, assembled together, were discussing… · Various

• "In a time to come, but not yet, go to the city of Baghdad, ask for the house of Mirza Musa Irani. There shalt thou hear tidings of me."

  One evening the Sufis of that country-side, assembled together, were discussing… · Various

• "One evening the western pilgrims were gathered together as usual with the Guardian. All was quiet when Shoghi Effendi suddenly said: “Prayer is useless."

  “One evening the western pilgrims were gathered together as usual with the Guardian · Various

• "Prayer and meditation are useless without action."

  “One evening the western pilgrims were gathered together as usual with the Guardian · Various

• "My Lord! I believe; forgive me. Thy servant, Thomas Breakwell."

  One of the most beautiful stories we have is the one of May Maxwell (the mother… · Various

• "I went to the Rue du Bac to get my mail and found a cablegram which had just arrived saying, 'You may leave Paris.' and signed Abbas."

  One of the most beautiful stories we have is the one of May Maxwell (the mother… · Various

• "We have never heard that one before."

  One of the most important pioneer families in the Fort Worth / Dallas area ws… · Various

• "Dr. Fareed has ground me down!"

  One of those 'unspiritual people' was at that moment a member of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's party, Dr · Various

• "If you ask them how things are going, they say"

  One reporter asked "What do you think of America?" 'I like it,' replied the… · Various

• "If you will come to me at dawn tomorrow, I will teach you to pray."

  One well-known story involves teaching Mountfort Mills how to pray: when… · Various

• "you must not think of your aching body, nor of the birds outside the window, nor of the cracks in the wall!"

  One well-known story involves teaching Mountfort Mills how to pray: when… · Various

• "When you wish to pray you must first know that you are standing in the presence of the Almighty!"

  One well-known story involves teaching Mountfort Mills how to pray: when… · Various

• "A tempest, unprecedented in its violence, unpredictable in its"

  A Tempest Sweeping the Earth: Shoghi Effendi on the Modern Crisis · Shoghi Effendi

• "course, catastrophic in its immediate effects, unimaginably"

  A Tempest Sweeping the Earth: Shoghi Effendi on the Modern Crisis · Shoghi Effendi

• "glorious in its ultimate consequences, is at present sweeping"

  A Tempest Sweeping the Earth: Shoghi Effendi on the Modern Crisis · Shoghi Effendi

• "There flowed from Him to me during that marvelous contact a"

  Here Is a Black Rose: Howard Colby Ives Witnesses an Inversion · Howard Colby Ives

• "He poured my tea Himself, and answered, before I had asked"

  A Cup of Tea: The Master Listens to a Tired Minister · Howard Colby Ives

• "it, the question I had carried in."

  A Cup of Tea: The Master Listens to a Tired Minister · Howard Colby Ives

• "The fragrance of the lilies and the laughter of the children"

  Fragrance of Lilies: A Sunday in the Master's Garden · Howard Colby Ives

• "combined into the fragrance of the Cause itself."

  Fragrance of Lilies: A Sunday in the Master's Garden · Howard Colby Ives

• "I sat in my own pew while the Master spoke from my own"

  The Master in the Unitarian Pulpit: Brooklyn, 1912 · Howard Colby Ives

• "pulpit, and the church I had served for years was no longer"

  The Master in the Unitarian Pulpit: Brooklyn, 1912 · Howard Colby Ives

• "the church I had thought it was."

  The Master in the Unitarian Pulpit: Brooklyn, 1912 · Howard Colby Ives

• "I sat very close to Him and it seemed there flowed from Him to"

  A Stream of Power: Ives at the Master's Farewell, December 1912 · Howard Colby Ives

• "me a veritable stream of spiritual energy which at times was"

  A Stream of Power: Ives at the Master's Farewell, December 1912 · Howard Colby Ives

• "You must manifest complete love and affection towards all"

  A Stream of Power: Ives at the Master's Farewell, December 1912 · Howard Colby Ives

• "mankind. Do not exalt yourselves above others but consider all"

  A Stream of Power: Ives at the Master's Farewell, December 1912 · Howard Colby Ives

• "All my prepared questions seemed, in the room, suddenly small."

  The First Meeting in the Ansonia Hotel · Howard Colby Ives

• "The grandchildren used to watch for a mouthful of Khánum's food"

  The Mouthful of Khánum: A Childhood Privilege at the Family Table · Rúḥíyyih Khánum

• "that she would give to this or that one as it always tasted best."

  The Mouthful of Khánum: A Childhood Privilege at the Family Table · Rúḥíyyih Khánum

• "This tie connecting us is not just that of a physical grandfather"

  A Tie Far Deeper: Young Shoghi Approaches the Master · Rúḥíyyih Khánum

• "but something far deeper and more significant."

  A Tie Far Deeper: Young Shoghi Approaches the Master · Rúḥíyyih Khánum

• "The task is so overwhelmingly great I cannot but give way and"

  The Cable in London: Shoghi Effendi Learns of His Appointment · Rúḥíyyih Khánum

• "I desire to be known by no other name save the one our Beloved"

  The Cable in London: Shoghi Effendi Learns of His Appointment · Rúḥíyyih Khánum

• "Tonight I have come to meet you, the kings of God's earth."

  Beggars and Brothers: The Bowery Mission Address · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "When freedom of conscience, liberty of thought and right of"

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "speech prevail — that is to say, when every man according to"

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "his own idealization may give expression to his beliefs —"

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "development and growth are inevitable."

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The divine religion is reality, and reality is not multiple; it"

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "is one. Therefore, the foundations of the religious systems are"

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "one because all proceed from the indivisible reality."

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "is to establish unity amongst mankind."

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "If the Holy Books were rightly understood, none of this discord"

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "and distress would have existed, but love and fellowship would"

  Where Conscience Is Free: Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The church is a collective center for mankind ... all in the"

  All Offering the Same Melody: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Church of the Ascension · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "presence of the Lord, covenanting together in a covenant of love"

  All Offering the Same Melody: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Church of the Ascension · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "and fellowship, all offering the same melody, prayer and"

  All Offering the Same Melody: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Church of the Ascension · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "I desire spiritual distinction — that is, you must become eminent"

  Spiritual Distinction: A Talk in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "and distinguished in morals. In the love of God you must become"

  Spiritual Distinction: A Talk in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "You must become distinguished for loving humanity, for unity and"

  Spiritual Distinction: A Talk in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "accord, for love and justice ... for justice and fidelity, for"

  Spiritual Distinction: A Talk in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Religions are many, but the reality of religion is one. The days"

  The Days Are Many, the Sun Is One: At the Church of the Divine Paternity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "If religion does not agree with science, it is superstition and"

  The Days Are Many, the Sun Is One: At the Church of the Divine Paternity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "ignorance; for God has endowed man with reason."

  The Days Are Many, the Sun Is One: At the Church of the Divine Paternity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "If [religion] become the cause of hatred and strife, its absence"

  The Days Are Many, the Sun Is One: At the Church of the Divine Paternity · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "If one member is in distress ... all the other members must"

  If One Member Suffers: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to the Workers of Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "necessarily suffer ... if the eye should be affected, that"

  If One Member Suffers: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to the Workers of Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "affliction would affect the whole nervous system."

  If One Member Suffers: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to the Workers of Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The divine religions embody two kinds of ordinances. First, there"

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "are those which constitute essential, or spiritual, teachings of"

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Abraham was the founder of reality. Moses, Christ, Muḥammad were"

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Through Christ, through the blessing of the New Testament of Jesus"

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Christ, the Old Testament, the Torah, was translated into six"

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "hundred different tongues and spread throughout the world."

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Christians and Jews should have the greatest love for each other"

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "because the Founders of these two great religions have been in"

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "perfect agreement in Book and teaching."

  At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The cause of the chaotic condition lies in the differences among"

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the religions and finds its origin in the animosity and hatred"

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "existing between sects and denominations."

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Imitation destroys the foundation of religion, extinguishes the"

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "spirituality of the human world, transforms heavenly illumination"

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "into darkness and deprives man of the knowledge of God."

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The Prophets of God have come to unite the children of men and"

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "not to disperse them, to establish the law of love and not"

  True Shepherds Gather, They Do Not Scatter: Fanwood, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The earth is one native land, one home; and all mankind are the"

  The Earth Is One Native Land: Farewell Aboard the SS Celtic · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "children of one Father. God has created them, and they are the"

  The Earth Is One Native Land: Farewell Aboard the SS Celtic · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "recipients of His compassion. Therefore, if anyone offends another,"

  The Earth Is One Native Land: Farewell Aboard the SS Celtic · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "America has arisen to spread the teachings of peace, to increase"

  America's Calling: A Talk at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the illumination of humankind and bestow happiness and prosperity"

  America's Calling: A Talk at the Grand Hotel, Cincinnati · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Proofs are of four kinds: first, through sense perception;"

  Four Proofs and a Prayer for Sarah Farmer: Green Acre, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "second, through the reasoning faculty; third, from traditional or"

  Four Proofs and a Prayer for Sarah Farmer: Green Acre, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "scriptural authority; fourth, through the medium of inspiration."

  Four Proofs and a Prayer for Sarah Farmer: Green Acre, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena, and the"

  Four Proofs and a Prayer for Sarah Farmer: Green Acre, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "absence of love is the cause of disintegration or nonexistence."

  Four Proofs and a Prayer for Sarah Farmer: Green Acre, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Love for your country must be enlarged into love for the"

  Unity of Nations: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Handel Hall · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Peace is light, whereas war is darkness. Peace is life; war"

  Peace Is Light, War Is Darkness: At the New York Peace Society · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Bahá’u’lláh, addressing all humanity, said that Adam, the"

  Peace Is Light, War Is Darkness: At the New York Peace Society · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "parent of mankind, may be likened to the tree of nativity"

  Peace Is Light, War Is Darkness: At the New York Peace Society · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "upon which you are the leaves and blossoms."

  Peace Is Light, War Is Darkness: At the New York Peace Society · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The twentieth century was the century of lights, the twentieth"

  Peace Is Light, War Is Darkness: At the New York Peace Society · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "century was the century of life, the twentieth century was the"

  Peace Is Light, War Is Darkness: At the New York Peace Society · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "century of international peace."

  Peace Is Light, War Is Darkness: At the New York Peace Society · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The Prophets of God are the first Educators. They bestow"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "universal education upon man and cause him to rise from the"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "lowest levels of savagery to the highest pinnacles of spiritual"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The forms and superstitions which appeared and obscured the"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "light did not affect the reality of Christ."

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The preface announces that it contains the essences of the"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "words of the Prophets of the past, clothed in the garment of"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "brevity, for the teaching and spiritual guidance of the people"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "of the world. Read it that you may understand the true"

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "foundations of religion. It is light upon light."

  Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The station of man is great, very great. God has created man"

  The Station of Man: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Howard University · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "after His own image and likeness."

  The Station of Man: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Howard University · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The foundations of all the divine religions are peace and"

  America Without Colonies: A Talk at the Peace Forum, New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "agreement, but misunderstandings and ignorance have developed."

  America Without Colonies: A Talk at the Peace Forum, New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "This is the practical Christianity of our time."

  Hull House: 'Abdu'l-Bahá Visits Jane Addams · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The Holy Spirit is the bond between the human soul and"

  Leland Hotel, Minneapolis: A Talk on the Holy Spirit · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Where two or three are gathered in His Name, the Cause"

  Greetings at the Train Station: 'Abdu'l-Bahá Arrives in Cleveland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The power which has gathered you here today notwithstanding"

  Thousands of Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Dedication Talk · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the cold and windy weather is, indeed, mighty and wonderful."

  Thousands of Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Dedication Talk · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The Mashriqu'l-Adhkár cannot be triangular in shape. It must"

  Thousands of Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Dedication Talk · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Thousands of Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs, dawning points of praise and"

  Thousands of Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Dedication Talk · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "mention of God for all religionists, will be built in the East"

  Thousands of Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Dedication Talk · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Nature is the material world. When we look upon it, we see that"

  The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "If man himself is left in his natural state, he will become"

  The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "lower than the animal and continue to grow more ignorant and"

  The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The mission of the Prophets of God has been to train the souls"

  The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "of humanity and free them from the thralldom of natural"

  The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The glory of man is in the knowledge of God, spiritual"

  The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "susceptibilities, attainment to transcendent powers and the"

  The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The perfections of God, the divine virtues, are reflected or"

  Color Is Accidental: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the NAACP, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Color is accidental in nature. The spirit and intelligence of man"

  Color Is Accidental: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the NAACP, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "is essential, and that is the manifestation of divine virtues."

  Color Is Accidental: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the NAACP, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "A man’s heart may be pure and white though his outer skin be"

  Color Is Accidental: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the NAACP, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "black; or his heart be dark and sinful though his racial color"

  Color Is Accidental: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the NAACP, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "In his life and being cooperation and association are essential."

  Leaves of One Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Orient-Occident Conference · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Through association and meeting we find happiness and"

  Leaves of One Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Orient-Occident Conference · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "development, individual and collective."

  Leaves of One Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Orient-Occident Conference · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Ye are all leaves of one tree and the drops of one sea."

  Leaves of One Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Orient-Occident Conference · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "May this American democracy be the first nation to establish"

  Leaves of One Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Orient-Occident Conference · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the foundation of international agreement. May it be the first"

  Leaves of One Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Orient-Occident Conference · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "nation to proclaim the universality of mankind."

  Leaves of One Tree: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Orient-Occident Conference · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "is superstition, for true science is reason and reality, and"

  Six Principles at the Hotel Schenley: Pittsburgh, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "religion is essentially reality and pure reason."

  Six Principles at the Hotel Schenley: Pittsburgh, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Universal peace is an impossibility through human and material"

  Six Principles at the Hotel Schenley: Pittsburgh, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "agencies; it must be through spiritual power."

  Six Principles at the Hotel Schenley: Pittsburgh, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The noblest of men is he who serves humankind, and he is nearest"

  Six Principles at the Hotel Schenley: Pittsburgh, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the threshold of God who is the least of His servants."

  Six Principles at the Hotel Schenley: Pittsburgh, 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "When we review history from the beginning of human existence to"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the present age in which we live, it is evident all war and"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "conflict, bloodshed and battle, every form of sedition has been"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "due to some form of prejudice — whether religious, racial or"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Some years ago when I was living in Rumelia, war broke out among"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the religious peoples. There was no attitude of justice or equity"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "whatever amongst them. They pillaged the properties of each other,"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "burning each others’ homes and houses, slaughtering men, women"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "and children, imagining that such warfare and bloodshed was the"

  Prejudice Destroys Civilization: A Talk to a Japanese Audience in Oakland · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Real thankfulness is a cordial giving of thanks from the heart."

  Thankfulness from the Heart: A Talk at the Krugs' Home · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "When man in response to the favors of God manifests susceptibilities"

  Thankfulness from the Heart: A Talk at the Krugs' Home · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "of conscience, the heart is happy, the spirit is exhilarated."

  Thankfulness from the Heart: A Talk at the Krugs' Home · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The greatest need in the world today is international peace."

  Europe Is Like an Arsenal: Sacramento, October 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The reality of Divinity is like unto the sun, and revelation is"

  Europe Is Like an Arsenal: Sacramento, October 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Cast aside all the prejudices of ignorance, and raise aloft the"

  Europe Is Like an Arsenal: Sacramento, October 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "banner of international agreement."

  Europe Is Like an Arsenal: Sacramento, October 1912 · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Natural philosophy seeks knowledge of physical verities and"

  Two Wings of the Bird of Knowledge: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Stanford · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "explains material phenomena, whereas divine philosophy deals"

  Two Wings of the Bird of Knowledge: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Stanford · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "with ideal verities and phenomena of the spirit."

  Two Wings of the Bird of Knowledge: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Stanford · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The purpose of all the divine religions is the establishment of"

  At Temple Emmanu-El: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in San Francisco · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the bonds of love and fellowship among men, and the heavenly"

  At Temple Emmanu-El: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in San Francisco · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "phenomena of the revealed Word of God are intended to be a"

  At Temple Emmanu-El: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in San Francisco · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "source of knowledge and illumination to humanity."

  At Temple Emmanu-El: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in San Francisco · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Consultation must have for its object the investigation of truth."

  Not Debate, but Consultation: A Talk at the Hotel Plaza, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "He who expresses an opinion should not voice it as correct and"

  Not Debate, but Consultation: A Talk at the Hotel Plaza, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "right but set it forth as a contribution to the consensus of"

  Not Debate, but Consultation: A Talk at the Hotel Plaza, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "All the disciples replied, "Surely we will — it is agreed; this"

  Not Debate, but Consultation: A Talk at the Hotel Plaza, Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Not through rod nor blow, whip nor sword; but the power of the"

  The Zoroastrian Priest Who Saw Beyond Prejudice: A Talk in Washington · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "You are very welcome and it makes me happy to see you here in London."

  QUITE an oriental note was struck toward the end of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's London… · Various

• "Do you love Mirza Yuhanna Dawud with all your heart and soul?"

  QUITE an oriental note was struck toward the end of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's London… · Various

• "Do you love Nur Mahal Khánum with all your heart and soul?"

  QUITE an oriental note was struck toward the end of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's London… · Various

• "May joy be increased to you as the years go by, and may you become thriving trees bearing delicious and fragrant fruits which are the blessings in the path of service."

  QUITE an oriental note was struck toward the end of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's London… · Various

• "Compose your differences, and reduce your armaments, that the"

  The Súriy-i-Mulúk: A General Address to the Kings · Adib Taherzadeh

• "burden of your expenditures may be lightened."

  The Súriy-i-Mulúk: A General Address to the Kings · Adib Taherzadeh

• "The promise of all ages is now fulfilled!"

  On the Mountain of God: The Revelation of the Tablet of Carmel · Adib Taherzadeh

• "For what thou hast done, thy kingdom shall be thrown into"

  Cast Behind Thy Back: Bahá'u'lláh's Second Tablet to Napoleon III · Adib Taherzadeh

• "confusion, and thine empire shall pass from thine hands, as"

  Cast Behind Thy Back: Bahá'u'lláh's Second Tablet to Napoleon III · Adib Taherzadeh

• "a punishment for that which thou hast wrought."

  Cast Behind Thy Back: Bahá'u'lláh's Second Tablet to Napoleon III · Adib Taherzadeh

• "Sell, then, the embellished ornaments thou possessest, and"

  A Letter to the Pope: Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Pius IX · Adib Taherzadeh

• "expend them in the path of God, Who causeth the night to"

  A Letter to the Pope: Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Pius IX · Adib Taherzadeh

• "return upon the day, and the day to return upon the night."

  A Letter to the Pope: Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Pius IX · Adib Taherzadeh

• "Lay not aside the fear of God, O kings of the earth, and"

  A Letter to a Queen: Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Victoria · Adib Taherzadeh

• "beware that ye transgress not the bounds which the Almighty"

  A Letter to a Queen: Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Victoria · Adib Taherzadeh

• "You are weeping, Ridvaniyyih, but if you could see the beauty of the place where she is, you would no longer be sad."

  Ridvaniyyih Khánum related that when her child was ill, the Master came and… · Various

• "If you could see that sacred Garden, you would not be content to remain here on earth. Yet this is where your duty now lies."

  Ridvaniyyih Khánum related that when her child was ill, the Master came and… · Various

• "from one world of God to another, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote a very beautiful tablet to me, in which He spoke of my mother as being"

  Ridvaniyyih Khánum related that when her child was ill, the Master came and… · Various

• "One day a friend, who had not yet heard of the tablet of the Master, told me of a vivid dream she had of my mother, whom she had known and loved."

  Ridvaniyyih Khánum related that when her child was ill, the Master came and… · Various

• "Oh, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, come and help me save some of these people who are drowning in the flood."

  Ruhiyyih Khanum said she had a dream one night: she dreamed that the dam had… · Various

• "Oh ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, these people are drowning, come help me save some of these people who are drowning in the flood."

  Ruhiyyih Khanum said she had a dream one night: she dreamed that the dam had… · Various

• "‘Abdu’l-Bahá is building the machine to stop the flood."

  Ruhiyyih Khanum said she had a dream one night: she dreamed that the dam had… · Various

• "In Him let the trusting trust."

  Síyáh-Chál, the name of the prison to which Bahá’u’lláh was taken on that… · Various

• "Detachment is the cleansing of the heart from every"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on Detachment from the World · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "attachment save the love of God."

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on Detachment from the World · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Religion that does not produce love and unity is no"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on the Purpose of Religion · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Wherever a meeting is held in My Name, the Concourse on"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on the Spiritual Meeting · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The world of humanity has two wings — one is woman, the"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on the Equality of Women · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "other man. Not until both wings are equally developed can"

  'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet on the Equality of Women · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Nature is that condition, that reality, which in appearance"

  Nature: The Composition and Decomposition of All Things · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "consists in life and death, or, in other words, in the"

  Nature: The Composition and Decomposition of All Things · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "composition and decomposition of all things."

  Nature: The Composition and Decomposition of All Things · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Those who dwelt upon the earth"

  11: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "And the temple of God was opened in heaven"

  11: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "And the temple of God was opened in heaven"

  11: COMMENTARY ON THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Where she had a place prepared of God."

  13: COMMENTARY ON THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Is this globe eternal or phenomenal?"

  17: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "If any man eateth of this bread"

  21: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE BREAD AND THE WINE · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Miracles are proofs for the eyewitness only — and even he may"

  Miracles: Proofs for the Eyewitness Only · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "regard them not as a miracle but as an enchantment."

  Miracles: Proofs for the Eyewitness Only · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "If left under the rule of nature, man becomes lower than an"

  The Need of an Educator: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Why Humanity Cannot Self-Civilise · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "animal — whereas if he is educated he becomes an angel."

  The Need of an Educator: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Why Humanity Cannot Self-Civilise · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church."

  34: PETER’S CONFESSION OF FAITH · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The way is closed, and seeking is forbidden."

  37: THE DIVINITY CAN ONLY BE COMPREHENDED THROUGH THE DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Do not worship any picture or image."

  43: THE TWO CLASSES OF PROPHETS · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "This is hallowed ground, made so by your vision and sacrifice. Always remember, this is hallowed ground, which I am pointing out to you."

  Sarah Farmer had a vision of Green Acre as a peaceful and beautiful place where… · Various

• "Verily I am the Lord of mighty grandeur, of incomparable"

  From the Qayyúm al-Asmá': The Báb's First Major Work · the Báb

• "glory, Who hath revealed His Cause unto thee, O thou whose"

  From the Qayyúm al-Asmá': The Báb's First Major Work · the Báb

• "Glorified art Thou, O Lord, my God! I yield Thee thanks that"

  The Báb's Prayer from the Mountain Prison of Máh-Kú · the Báb

• "Thou hast made known unto me Him Who is the Manifestation of"

  The Báb's Prayer from the Mountain Prison of Máh-Kú · the Báb

• "Be thou as a flame of fire to My enemies and a river of life"

  The Báb's Tablet to Mullá Ḥusayn on Departing Shíráz · the Báb

• "O concourse of kings! Deliver with truth and in all haste the"

  O Concourse of Kings: A Passage from the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá' · the Báb

• "verses sent down by Us to the peoples of Turkey and of India,"

  O Concourse of Kings: A Passage from the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá' · the Báb

• "and beyond them, with power and with truth, to lands in both the"

  O Concourse of Kings: A Passage from the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá' · the Báb

• "And know that if ye aid God, He will, on the Day of Resurrection,"

  O Concourse of Kings: A Passage from the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá' · the Báb

• "graciously aid you, upon the Bridge, through Him Who is His Most"

  O Concourse of Kings: A Passage from the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá' · the Báb

• "It is seemly that the servant should, after each prayer,"

  After Each Prayer: The Báb on Remembering Parents · the Báb

• "supplicate God to bestow mercy and forgiveness upon his parents."

  After Each Prayer: The Báb on Remembering Parents · the Báb

• "' she told the family, but judging by a few things that happened, 'I fear that were I ever to become a widow -- which God forbid! as I am really"

  She said Constantinople was the gossips' Home Sweet Home, and complimented… · Various

• "I should like you to visit the City Temple"

  Shortly after his arrival ‘Abdu’l-Bahá met the Rev · Various

• "I should like to come. I know that the City Temple is the center of progress in the religious world, and seeks to promote the universal understanding."

  Shortly after his arrival ‘Abdu’l-Bahá met the Rev · Various

• "has given him beauty of form and has created him blessed and not rapacious and bloodthirsty."

  Shortly before leaving Denver, someone asked Him about eating meat · Various

• "This child never cries. He is so unlike other babies who cry"

  The Boy Who Did Not Cry: Bahá'u'lláh's Childhood · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "This dream indicates that the Child shall be the founder of a"

  The Boy Who Did Not Cry: Bahá'u'lláh's Childhood · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "great Cause. He will be victorious over all."

  The Boy Who Did Not Cry: Bahá'u'lláh's Childhood · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "Even as a child He sought justice — and would not give a verdict"

  The Boy Who Would Hear Both Sides · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "until He had heard the other side."

  The Boy Who Would Hear Both Sides · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "After each martyrdom, the executioner, who had grown to admire"

  The Executioner Who Returned: A Witness in the Síyáh-Chál · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "Bahá’u’lláh, would come to Him and inform Him of the"

  The Executioner Who Returned: A Witness in the Síyáh-Chál · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "circumstances of the martyr’s death and the joy with which he"

  The Executioner Who Returned: A Witness in the Síyáh-Chál · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "God is sufficient unto me. He verily is the All-sufficing."

  God Is Sufficient: The Bábís Chanting in the Síyáh-Chál · Ali-Akbar Furutan

• "That will give you some relief."

  Sometime later, I usually had the privilege of walking home with the Guardian… · Various

• "Thou wert as pure gold and didst enter the fire of tests… Gird up then thy loins, strengthen thy resolve, and arise with a mighty heart to promote the Word of God in that remote region."

  Sometime that summer at the pressing invitation of the friends in California,… · Various

• "About eight hundred people attended the public meetings — and a"

  Eight Hundred in Budapest: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Hungary · Star of the West Editors

• "small nucleus of the Faith began."

  Eight Hundred in Budapest: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Hungary · Star of the West Editors

• "University students, library placements, and Esperanto"

  The Glad Tidings in Japan: Agnes Alexander Writes from Tokyo · Star of the West Editors

• "activities — the glad tidings in Japan."

  The Glad Tidings in Japan: Agnes Alexander Writes from Tokyo · Star of the West Editors

• "She was made radiant and became a Bahá'í. She returned to her"

  Forty Lamps in One Year: The Woman from Ardistán · Star of the West Editors

• "home. In one year she was enabled to ignite forty lamps."

  Forty Lamps in One Year: The Woman from Ardistán · Star of the West Editors

• "Now you must ignite four thousand lamps in one year."

  Forty Lamps in One Year: The Woman from Ardistán · Star of the West Editors

• "Firmness in the Covenant is the means of the promotion of the"

  The Strong Rope: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet to Mrs. Cline of Los Angeles · Star of the West Editors

• "This land is not for us. It is for the children's children"

  Corinne True and the Temple Land at Wilmette · Star of the West Editors

• "The sterling faithfulness of Esfandayár — preserved by the"

  The Faithful Servant Esfandayár · Star of the West Editors

• "The Faith has now reached the territory the Master named."

  First News of the Faith in Alaska · Star of the West Editors

• "You have written excellent articles in the papers in regard to"

  A Burning Torch: The Master's Counsel to Mrs. Fraser · Star of the West Editors

• "the Cause. I will never forget these services of yours."

  A Burning Torch: The Master's Counsel to Mrs. Fraser · Star of the West Editors

• "You must become like a burning torch — so that you may be able"

  A Burning Torch: The Master's Counsel to Mrs. Fraser · Star of the West Editors

• "We have remained, all through the dark years, the small"

  First News from the German Friends · Star of the West Editors

• "My home is the home of laughter and exultation."

  The Home of Laughter: 'Abdu'l-Bahá Reconciles Two Feuding Arabs · Star of the West Editors

• "This unique place offers a free and unrestricted platform."

  Green Acre and Sarah Farmer's Free Platform · Star of the West Editors

• "Green Acre is a place where every soul of every faith"

  Green Acre's Summer School Comes of Age · Star of the West Editors

• "He served the tea Himself with His own hands."

  A Pilgrim's Account of the Master's Last Years: Genevieve Coy in Haifa · Star of the West Editors

• "These children are, as it were, the seeds of the future world."

  A School on Mount Carmel: News of the Haifa Bahá'í School · Star of the West Editors

• "He started out from the Holy Land to Persia without even the"

  The Angel of the Believers: Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí · Star of the West Editors

• "equipment of a donkey, and became known as the Angel of the"

  The Angel of the Believers: Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí · Star of the West Editors

• "In My household the daughters and the sons receive the"

  Helen Goodall's Pilgrimage Notes · Star of the West Editors

• "His work on these talks will be his lasting service to the"

  The Passing of Howard MacNutt · Star of the West Editors

• "Young Hindu of high caste — by crossing the sea and living in"

  Hindus in the Pilgrim House: Caste Crossed at Haifa · Star of the West Editors

• "the pilgrim house with Zoroastrians, Jews, and Mohammedans —"

  Hindus in the Pilgrim House: Caste Crossed at Haifa · Star of the West Editors

• "This Book is the foundation of the doctrine of our Faith."

  The First English Iqán: Ali-Kuli Khan's Translation · Star of the West Editors

• "The school is open to every child, of every faith, and of"

  The Tarbíyat Schools of Tihrán: News from Persia · Star of the West Editors

• "In Japan the spiritual field of work is ready for the laborers."

  The Spiritual Field of Japan: Charles Mason Remey's Letter from Asia · Star of the West Editors

• "She is the first American Bahá'í martyr."

  Keith Ransom-Kehler in Iran · Star of the West Editors

• "He will be a shining light for God."

  A Shining Light: Leslie Armstrong of Montreal · Star of the West Editors

• "A great soul, aflame with God's Word."

  A Soul Aflame: Louis Gregory in London, 1911 · Star of the West Editors

• "In every city, however small the gathering, the colour line"

  Louis Gregory's Southern Tour · Star of the West Editors

• "I am here in His Name and for His sake."

  Lua Getsinger's Letter from India · Star of the West Editors

• "In every city where two are gathered in His Name, the work"

  Mary Hanford Ford on the Spread of the Cause · Star of the West Editors

• "American Bahais are needed in Japan."

  From Rangoon: Charles Mason Remey's Asian Travels · Star of the West Editors

• "Lectures to socialists and notice in the Montreal newspapers —"

  From Montreal: May Maxwell's Letter to the Star of the West · Star of the West Editors

• "He is indeed young in face, form and manner — yet his heart is"

  Young in Face: Mountfort Mills Meets the Guardian · Star of the West Editors

• "Be ye filled with the joy and gladness of the Lord."

  A Naw-Rúz Message from 'Abdu'l-Bahá · Star of the West Editors

• "One soon, from among the American Bahais, who is efficient in"

  Sixty-Three Scholarships: The Persian-American Educational Society · Star of the West Editors

• "I want the believers to be admitted to see their Lord."

  The Purest Branch: A Memorial in the First Issue of the Star of the West · Star of the West Editors

• "I came to learn engineering. I stayed to serve."

  Saichiro Fujita and the Master's Household · Star of the West Editors

• "She worked many years for it in Pendleton — quietly but"

  The Silk Weaver of Pendleton: Sarah Ann Ridgway · Star of the West Editors

• "Eggs have been six cents apiece, bread very poor and so high"

  Bread Six Cents Apiece: Elizabeth Stewart Writes from Tehran · Star of the West Editors

• "that I have made it for a long time."

  Bread Six Cents Apiece: Elizabeth Stewart Writes from Tehran · Star of the West Editors

• "These are the days for sowing the seeds of universal peace."

  The Tablets of the Divine Plan Unveiled · Star of the West Editors

• "He is the first American believer, and his name will be"

  The First American Believer: Thornton Chase's Passing · Star of the West Editors

• "inscribed in the records of the Cause."

  The First American Believer: Thornton Chase's Passing · Star of the West Editors

• "Bitter words and criticisms of the friends were the most"

  Three Kinds of Persecution: 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Account of His Imprisonment · Star of the West Editors

• "Notify the British Commander at once: the safety of"

  Major Tudor Pole's Cable from Jerusalem · Star of the West Editors

• "'Abdu'l-Bahá is the safety of the Cause."

  Major Tudor Pole's Cable from Jerusalem · Star of the West Editors

• "Two people are equivalent in strength of character to the"

  Two of Equivalent Strength: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Los Angeles · Star of the West Editors

• "Today the greatest affliction of the world is war."

  When the Inhabitants of a City Are United: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to American Women on Peace · Star of the West Editors

• "If the community of women attains advancement and power, many"

  When the Inhabitants of a City Are United: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to American Women on Peace · Star of the West Editors

• "matters that are now beyond our capacity will be accomplished."

  When the Inhabitants of a City Are United: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to American Women on Peace · Star of the West Editors

• "When the people of one house show affection toward each"

  When the Inhabitants of a City Are United: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to American Women on Peace · Star of the West Editors

• "other, how beneficial it is; when the inhabitants of a city"

  When the Inhabitants of a City Are United: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to American Women on Peace · Star of the West Editors

• "are united and harmonious, how much mutual assistance results."

  When the Inhabitants of a City Are United: 'Abdu'l-Bahá to American Women on Peace · Star of the West Editors

• "Do you teach the spiritual things?"

  Stanwood Cobb recorded that ‘the most important interview’ he had with the… · Various

• "No, there is not time for that."

  Stanwood Cobb recorded that ‘the most important interview’ he had with the… · Various

• "Yes, weep on. Beyond the tears is sunshine."

  Stanwood Cobb, the renowned educator, wrote, ‘This philosophy of joy was the… · Various

• "Well, I will endure such and such a person so long as he is endurable."

  Stanwood Cobb wrote that on one occasion He spoke of the need for loving… · Various

• "No reproach this day shall be on you. God will forgive you;"

  The Prophet Joseph and His Brothers: A Story of Forgiveness · Various Compilers

• "for of those that show mercy, He is the most merciful."

  The Prophet Joseph and His Brothers: A Story of Forgiveness · Various Compilers

• "I have only this `aba , which I am wearing, I will gladly give it to you."

  Such was the Master's kindness, disregarding always the bitter persecution… · Various

• "I will give you money to buy a good 'aba for yourself."

  Such was the Master's kindness, disregarding always the bitter persecution… · Various

• "that the Sultanate would not last more than two years."

  Such was the Master's kindness, disregarding always the bitter persecution… · Various

• "Call one of the Persians. You must understand this."

  Suddenly, with a great flash like lightning he opened his eyes in the room… · Various

• "A great joy had lifted Lua up. Her eyes were full of light. She looked like a winged Angel."

  Suddenly, with a great flash like lightning he opened his eyes in the room… · Various

• ", she cried, that I may do this work for Thee!"

  Suddenly, with a great flash like lightning he opened his eyes in the room… · Various

• "this is not good enough for ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. I am going right down to Morgan's to buy a new set"

  Sutherland, although greatly involved in the Maxwell brothers' architectural… · Various

• "When the winds blow severely, rains fall fiercely … grieve"

  After This Storm, the Divine Spring · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "not; for after this storm, verily, the divine spring will"

  After This Storm, the Divine Spring · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "arrive, the hills and fields will become verdant … These"

  After This Storm, the Divine Spring · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "favors are results of those storms."

  After This Storm, the Divine Spring · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "O thou who hast turned thy face to the kingdom of God!"

  Tablet to Mrs. Jessie Cole of Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Be assured that the Holy Spirit is the helper of those"

  Tablet to Mrs. Jessie Cole of Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "who arise in service. Lay aside the small concerns of"

  Tablet to Mrs. Jessie Cole of Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "private comfort and undertake the labour of the teaching."

  Tablet to Mrs. Jessie Cole of Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Be a fountain of mercy, that thou mayest be sheltered"

  Tablet to Mrs. Jessie Cole of Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "beneath the wings of Providence."

  Tablet to Mrs. Jessie Cole of Chicago · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Communication is half a meeting."

  “O thou my spiritual companion!...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Glory be unto my Lord, the El-Baha!"

  “O thou who art advancing towards the Shining Orb of...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "The Life and Teachings of Abbas Effendi"

  “O thou who art attracted to the Beauty of Abha!...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Where is the Sun of the Horizon?"

  “O thou who art cheerfully moving by the Fragrances...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Forsake them to play in their shallow waters."

  “O thou who art confident in the appearance of the Kingdom...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Glory be to my God, the El-Baha!"

  “O thou whose heart is soaring in the sky of the love of...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit."

  “O visitant of the Resort of spirits (who are) sincere in...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "many are called but few are chosen"

  “O ye whom God hath chosen from among those who...” · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "O ye believers in the great city of New York! New York"

  Tablet to the Friends in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "is the city of the Covenant; from it the call shall go"

  Tablet to the Friends in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "forth. From this city shall the influence of the Cause"

  Tablet to the Friends in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "radiate to the whole of the New World. Therefore make"

  Tablet to the Friends in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "ready, that the city may bear the destiny appointed for"

  Tablet to the Friends in New York · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "O ye believers of God in the city of Washington! Be ye as"

  Tablet to the Friends in Washington · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "one soul in many bodies, and the Spirit shall flow forth"

  Tablet to the Friends in Washington · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "from you. Be a single hand of mercy turned toward all"

  Tablet to the Friends in Washington · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "men. Stand together in the Cause as the fingers of one"

  Tablet to the Friends in Washington · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "hand, distinct yet united, separate yet inseparable."

  Tablet to the Friends in Washington · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Thy pilgrimage is the beginning, not the end. Arise now"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "to the work that has been entrusted to thee. The"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "believers of America are awaiting the teaching that thou"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "hast received in 'Akká. Disperse it in their cities; let"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "not a single major town remain unvisited; let not a"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "single inquiring soul depart from thy presence"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "unenkindled. The Spirit of the Lord is with thee; the"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "hosts of the Supreme Concourse are arrayed for thy"

  Tablet to Mrs. Lua Getsinger after Her Pilgrimage · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Trust no man save him whose breast hath been dilated by God"

  Trust No Man Save Him Whose Breast Hath Been Dilated · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "through the light of faith, whom God hath confirmed in His"

  Trust No Man Save Him Whose Breast Hath Been Dilated · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Religion, and who is severed from all else save God and"

  Trust No Man Save Him Whose Breast Hath Been Dilated · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Ladies served tea afterward while sharing other pilgrims'"

  Persian Rugs and Tea: A Visit to the Shrine at Bahjí · Julia M. Grundy

• "There is a kind of food which needs neither knife nor fork —"

  The Food Spiritual: A Meal in 'Akká · Julia M. Grundy

• "The soul is the Sanctuary of God; Reason is His Throne."

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "Are miracles performed in this Day?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What becomes of an undeveloped infant's soul?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What will be the future of this Revelation?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "Will the law prevent this condition of affairs?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What will be the food of the future?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "Faith is not so much what we believe as what we carry out."

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What is true greatness in man?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "Tests are like fire which purifies."

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "How will the masses be benefited by this Revelation?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What is the best way to benefit humanity?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "When does our responsibility cease in giving the Message?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What is prayer, attitude or word?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What will be the future of this Teaching?"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "My greatest wish is to teach this Message."

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "Government is upon the shoulder"

  From THE Words OF ‘Abdu'L-BAHÁ · Julia M. Grundy

• "What is meant by 'Heaven' in the Bible?"

  Heaven · Julia M. Grundy

• "Why do you bring them food? They do not partake of it."

  Heavenly Sustenance · Julia M. Grundy

• "See how the enemies of Christ persecuted and crucified Him —"

  He Loved Them All: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Loving Difficult People · Julia M. Grundy

• "How can we love another whose personality is unpleasant?"

  Love · Julia M. Grundy

• "‘Abdu’l-Bahá sent for me. I found Him in a little room opening"

  You Are Always Here in Spirit: Julia Grundy's Last Audience · Julia M. Grundy

• "from the courtyard. He was sitting upon a raised chair, His"

  You Are Always Here in Spirit: Julia Grundy's Last Audience · Julia M. Grundy

• "beautiful face, majestic in repose and strength, turned toward"

  You Are Always Here in Spirit: Julia Grundy's Last Audience · Julia M. Grundy

• "You are near to God, and day by day you will progress by the"

  You Are Always Here in Spirit: Julia Grundy's Last Audience · Julia M. Grundy

• "knowledge of God toward spiritual joy. Then you will be a source"

  You Are Always Here in Spirit: Julia Grundy's Last Audience · Julia M. Grundy

• "You are always here in spirit; you will never be absent now."

  You Are Always Here in Spirit: Julia Grundy's Last Audience · Julia M. Grundy

• "I will pray to be assisted and strengthened."

  Spiritual Development · Julia M. Grundy

• "Do the Manifestations differ in degree?"

  THE Manifestation · Julia M. Grundy

• "What is the Second Coming of Christ in this Dispensation?"

  THE Second Coming · Julia M. Grundy

• "Why are women so favored in this Revelation?"

  Women IN THE BAHÁ'Í Revelation · Julia M. Grundy

• "How wrong we were! We will never again try to manage ‘Abdu’l-Bahá!"

  'That day ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had bestowed many sixpences, and people had come from… · Various

• "The bats fly away from the rays of the sun and in hiding themselves in dark and narrow niches they blame the Sun saying"

  The Covenant–breakers had been busy in Kenosha trying to take advantage of… · Various

• "I am sorry but He is occupied now with most important people, and cannot be disturbed."

  The demands on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s time were constant · Various

• "He wishes to see you, come back!"

  The demands on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s time were constant · Various

• "A heart has been hurt, hasten, hasten, bring her to Me."

  The demands on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s time were constant · Various

• "Knock, and it shall be opened unto thee"

  The essence of the message of every religion the world has known is the love of God · Various

• "I have to do something that I forgot. I promised to pray for Elsie Austin, because she wants to go to Africa, and the door is closed. Will you help me?"

  The following recollection of Javidukt Khadem, wife of the Hand of the Cause… · Various

• "Is this the way you always pray?"

  The following recollection of Javidukt Khadem, wife of the Hand of the Cause… · Various

• "Do you always say your prayers like that? Do you say your Obligatory Prayer every day like that?"

  The following recollection of Javidukt Khadem, wife of the Hand of the Cause… · Various

• "Did you ever read that you must wait to pray until you are feeling spiritual? Every morning I say many prayers, so that I will be spiritual enough to say my Obligatory Prayer."

  The following recollection of Javidukt Khadem, wife of the Hand of the Cause… · Various

• "A poor Bahá’í workman came to me: `I hear thou goest into the presence of our Beloved. Nothing have I to send, but this my dinner. I pray thee offer it to Him with my loving devotion.'"

  The following touching incident took place one day when we were seated at table… · Various

• "Eat with me of this gift of humble love."

  The following touching incident took place one day when we were seated at table… · Various

• "We have some wonderful cables today."

  The Guardian came over one evening · Various

• "Well, Shoghi Effendi, I said, of course this pioneer, he did the work, but it’s the Guardian that actually won this victory. You’re the one that won it, because if it hadn’t been for you, he’d have left."

  The Guardian came over one evening · Various

• "I must not go out this evening as my cold is severe, and I leave early in the morning for Spain. If only there were a possibility of seeing Him."

  ‘The Japanese Ambassador to a European capital (Viscount Arawaka – Madrid) was… · Various

• "Don’t you see that it is full?"

  The master Nan-in had a visitor who came to inquire about Zen · Various

• "And like this cup, you are filled with your own ideas. How can you expect me to give you Zen unless you offer me an empty cup?"

  The master Nan-in had a visitor who came to inquire about Zen · Various

• "Why, it is bitter! Did you not find it so?"

  The Master sometimes made His points through telling stories · Various

• "it was bitter and unpleasant, but I have tasted so much sweetness from thy hand that one bitter melon was not worth mentioning."

  The Master sometimes made His points through telling stories · Various

• "It is not that divorce should be more easy, but that marriages should be more difficult."

  The Master was averse to divorce · Various

• "You are a Christian, how can you ask to be separated? Christ Jesus, Whom I reverence, came not to part but to unite."

  The Master was averse to divorce · Various

• "You may divorce her, she is no longer your wife."

  The Master was averse to divorce · Various

• "I want to divorce Jamilih, and marry a younger woman."

  The Master was averse to divorce · Various

• "It is absolutely forbidden, you have married her; you must take care of her to the last moment of your life."

  The Master was averse to divorce · Various

• "My soul cries out and cannot bear these torments of hell."

  The most renowned of those repentant souls was the vigorous commander Hurr, who… · Various

• "God is kind to you. And I am going to be kind to you. And I am faithful!"

  The next morning early the Master telephoned me (that is, Ahmad telephoned for… · Various

• "I have always loved Him. Lua knows that."

  The next morning early the Master telephoned me (that is, Ahmad telephoned for… · Various

• "All my bitterness has gone. The Master must be helping me."

  The next morning early the Master telephoned me (that is, Ahmad telephoned for… · Various

• "Greece (His loving nickname for Grace) Greece, are you SURE you wish to serve ME?"

  There are many stories about beloved Grace Robarts Ober who, for so very many… · Various

• "Oh, YES! More than anything else in the world!"

  There are many stories about beloved Grace Robarts Ober who, for so very many… · Various

• "Very well go, settle up your affairs, and we will meet in New York."

  There are many stories about beloved Grace Robarts Ober who, for so very many… · Various

• "at least I will be included in THIS since EVERYONE in the household is to go."

  There are many stories about beloved Grace Robarts Ober who, for so very many… · Various

• "The Master has asked me to tell you that He knows you wept."

  There are many stories about beloved Grace Robarts Ober who, for so very many… · Various

• "Do you wish to follow in my foot steps?"

  There are many stories of Lua Getsinger · Various

• "His tone was louder and stern."

  There are many stories of Lua Getsinger · Various

• "said Lua again. Then, the third time he stopped and faced her."

  There are many stories of Lua Getsinger · Various

• "Do you wish to follow in My foot steps?"

  There are many stories of Lua Getsinger · Various

• "Very difficult English words I speak!"

  There is a note in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's character that has not been emphasized, and… · Various

• "George, is your wife a Bahá’í?"

  There is a situation which we sometimes have in Bahá’í communities where the… · Various

• "she became a Bahá’í during the last rainy season!"

  There is a situation which we sometimes have in Bahá’í communities where the… · Various

• "Why does that man continually interrupt the Master?"

  There is the story of the coal miner in California who had walked many miles to… · Various

• "‘Abdu’l-Bahá is speaking in Persian it must, be translated."

  There is the story of the coal miner in California who had walked many miles to… · Various

• "the coal miner was outraged."

  There is the story of the coal miner in California who had walked many miles to… · Various

• "Are you one of the prisoners in this town?"

  There was a Christian merchant in Akka who, like many of his fellow citizens,… · Various

• "What was the crime for which you were imprisoned?"

  There was a Christian merchant in Akka who, like many of his fellow citizens,… · Various

• "The same crime for which Christ was indicted."

  There was a Christian merchant in Akka who, like many of his fellow citizens,… · Various

• "What could you know of Christ?"

  There was a Christian merchant in Akka who, like many of his fellow citizens,… · Various

• "Now, Mrs. True, I have a gift for you tonight."

  There was a pilgrim from the United States, a Mrs.True, the American Bahá’ís… · Various

• "This is a purse which ‘Abdu’l-Bahá used, and I know you’ll treasure it and because it’s from him."

  There was a pilgrim from the United States, a Mrs.True, the American Bahá’ís… · Various

• "It’s a gold piece, she said. So he says, “Now just take it out and look at it."

  There was a pilgrim from the United States, a Mrs.True, the American Bahá’ís… · Various

• "Now, what’s the date of it, Mrs. True?"

  There was a pilgrim from the United States, a Mrs.True, the American Bahá’ís… · Various

• "That’s the date of your first visit to the Holy Land to visit ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. And this was a gold coin, which ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had."

  There was a pilgrim from the United States, a Mrs.True, the American Bahá’ís… · Various

• "Jináb-i-Fádil, because of your recognition and belief in the Cause of God, many souls will be drowned in the ocean of God's forgiveness and pardon"

  There was a time during his stay in 'Akká, when Fádil had been preoccupied with… · Various

• "Surely this watchman is Izra'il, my angel of death, following so fast upon me; or he is a tyrant of men, seeking to harm me."

  There was once a lover who had sighed for long years in separation from his… · Various

• "O God! Give Thou glory to the watchman, and riches and long life. For the watchman was Gabriel, guiding this poor one; or he was Israfil, bringing life to this wretched one!"

  There was once a lover who had sighed for long years in separation from his… · Various

• "You must never eat material food in the morning until you have had spiritual food."

  This is a story of one of the early Bahá’ís in the West, Lua Getsinger, and an… · Various

• "The people went all the way to Canada. Then, years later, some of them came back down to Plymouth, Massachusetts. My father was the first black person to graduate from the Plymouth High School. I was the third, and the first woman."

  This is my letter to the editor which was published in the McMinnville, Oregon… · Various

• "Child,’’ said my father, ‘‘don’t be impertinent."

  This is my letter to the editor which was published in the McMinnville, Oregon… · Various

• "So you see, all the people of the world are under the shade of that tree."

  This is my letter to the editor which was published in the McMinnville, Oregon… · Various

• "can I bear to sleep in luxury when so many of the poor have not even shelter?"

  This man who gives so freely must be rich, you think · Various

• "or whether he mixes with his tea some mysterious substance that makes every man who drinks the tea fall a victim to its charm."

  This uncle did everything possible to discredit Bahá’u’lláh and the truth of… · Various

• "I am completely happy here. Why does my mother weep?"

  This woman was a widow who had been left with the care of a simple-minded boy,… · Various

• "When you return consult with Mrs. True – I have given her complete instructions."

  Thornton Chase, named by the Master as the first American Bahá’í, along with… · Various

• "One day in my presence a lady said to Him: I have here a check from a friend, who begs its acceptance to buy a good motorcar for your work in England and Europe."

  Throughout his journey through the West, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá steadfastly refused to… · Various

• "I accept with grateful thanks the gift of your friend."

  Throughout his journey through the West, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá steadfastly refused to… · Various

• "I return it to be used for gifts to the poor."

  Throughout his journey through the West, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá steadfastly refused to… · Various

• "An iron nail was hammered into the middle of the staircase of"

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the very cell wherein they were imprisoned, and two ropes were"

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "hung down. By one rope the Báb was suspended and by the other"

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "rope Áqá Muḥammad-'Alí, both being firmly bound in such wise that"

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the head of that young man was on the Báb's breast."

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "When the smoke cleared away they saw that young man standing"

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "and the Báb seated by the side of His amanuensis. To neither one"

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "of them had the slightest injury resulted."

  Two Ropes in the Tabríz Cell: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the Báb's Martyrdom · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "For nine months [they] lodged Him in the inaccessible castle"

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "which is situated on the summit of that lofty mountain."

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "‘Alí Khán of Máh-Kú, because of his excessive love for the"

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "family of the Prophet, paid Him such attention as was possible,"

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "and gave permission to some persons to converse with Him."

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Evening and morning, nay, day and night, in extremest rapture"

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "and amazement, He would restrict Himself to repeating and"

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "meditating on the qualities and attributes of that"

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "absent-yet-present, regarded-and-regarding Person."

  Nine Months at Máh-Kú: The Báb in the Mountain Castle · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "In the year one thousand two hundred and sixty (A.H.), when He"

  In the Twenty-Fifth Year: The Báb Begins to Speak · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "was in His twenty-fifth year, certain signs became apparent in"

  In the Twenty-Fifth Year: The Báb Begins to Speak · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "His conduct, behavior, manners, and demeanor whereby it became"

  In the Twenty-Fifth Year: The Báb Begins to Speak · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "evident in Shíráz that He had some conflict in His mind and"

  In the Twenty-Fifth Year: The Báb Begins to Speak · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "some other flight beneath His wing."

  In the Twenty-Fifth Year: The Báb Begins to Speak · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "When the above-mentioned Siyyid arrived at Shíráz he interviewed"

  The Commentary on the Kawthar: Vaḥíd's Third Audience · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "the Báb three times. In the first and second conferences"

  The Commentary on the Kawthar: Vaḥíd's Third Audience · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "questioning and answering took place; in the third conference he"

  The Commentary on the Kawthar: Vaḥíd's Third Audience · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "requested a commentary on the Súrih called Kawthar."

  The Commentary on the Kawthar: Vaḥíd's Third Audience · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "Without thought or reflection He wrote an elaborate commentary"

  The Commentary on the Kawthar: Vaḥíd's Third Audience · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "on the Kawthar in his presence — and the above-mentioned Siyyid"

  The Commentary on the Kawthar: Vaḥíd's Third Audience · 'Abdu'l-Bahá

• "I have, O my Lord, offered up that which Thou hast given Me, that Thy servants may be quickened, and all that dwell on earth be united."

  To the galling weight of these tribulations was now added the bitter grief of a… · Various

• "Thou art the Trust of God and His Treasure in this Land. Erelong will God reveal through thee that which He hath desired."

  To the galling weight of these tribulations was now added the bitter grief of a… · Various

• "the Supreme Pen had testified, and of the"

  To the galling weight of these tribulations was now added the bitter grief of a… · Various

• "I will love her more than all the rest; you must not wish that she had been a boy."

  Tuba Khánum: When my little sister, Ruh-AngiAsiyih, arrived, there was some… · Various

• "I want to go through that same door to Heaven; didn't He go through it?"

  Tuba Khánum: When my little sister, Ruh-AngiAsiyih, arrived, there was some… · Various

• "I do not wish for anything. I would like best of all to go to Him."

  Tuba Khánum: When my little sister, Ruh-AngiAsiyih, arrived, there was some… · Various

• "We have a ewe. Sacrifice it. And I have saved a little flour against such a day."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "You have shown me the utmost generosity, receiving and feasting me. I am Nu'man, son of Mundhir, and I shall eagerly await your arrival at my court."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "I knew nothing of your Day of Evil. As for the gifts of this life, they are meant for the living, and since I at this hour must drink of death, what can all the world's storehouses avail me now?"

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "Respite me, then, that I may go back to my wife and make my testament. Next year I shall return, on the Day of Evil."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "O my partner, O son of Amr! Is there any escape from death? O brother of every afflicted one! O brother of him who is brotherless! O brother of Nu'man, in thee today is a surety for the Shaykh. Where is Shayban the noble -- may the All-Merciful favor him!"

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "O my brother, a man cannot gamble with his life."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "Perchance it is Hanzala who comes."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "Thou fool! Thou didst slip away once from the clutching fingers of death; must thou provoke him now a second time?"

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "Sweet in my mouth and pleasant on my tongue is the poison of death, at the thought of redeeming my pledge."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "What could be the reason for this trustworthiness, this regard for thine obligation and this concern for thine oath?"

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "It is my faith in the one God and in the Books that have come down from heaven."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "It was the holy breaths of Jesus that brought me to life. I follow the straight pathway of Christ, the Spirit of God."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "Let me inhale these sweet aromas of the Spirit."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "Alas, a thousand times alas, that up to now we were careless of this infinite mercy and veiled away therefrom, and were bereft of this rain from the clouds of the grace of God."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "Put now thy hand into thy bosom: it shall come forth white ... one of nine signs to Pharaoh and his people...."

  We shall here relate a story that will serve as an example to all · Various

• "We had to be. There were no books."

  We were sometimes led in America by dreams and visions,” said Georgia Ralston,… · Various

• "That’s the way I want you, boys, to act -- be natural, be happy."

  Wendell [Dodge] and I [William Dodge] were so glad to be with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá [in… · Various

• "No. I do not care to meet him. I know he is a wonderful man, but I do not care to meet him."

  When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá came to Boston in May, many people invited Harry Randall to… · Various

• "This is the last thing Harry wanted to do because he had an"

  When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá came to Boston in May, many people invited Harry Randall to… · Various

• "Here is the glass of grape juice."

  When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá came to Boston in May, many people invited Harry Randall to… · Various

• "He arose and held my hands and looked into my face and stroked me, all in silence for some time. Then He spoke softly in Persian and my mind heard this in English:"

  When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá came to Boston in May, many people invited Harry Randall to… · Various

• "He comes to us accepting nothing, and is giving to our people all the time! It must not go on!"

  'When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá first arrived in England, he was the guest of a friend in a… · Various

• "I am not convinced, I am not satisfied."

  When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1913, He related an incident… · Various

• "I wish you to live in Chicago. I wish you to work for the Mashriqu'l Adhkar."

  When Corinne True was on pilgrimage in 1907, she brought with her a petition… · Various

• "Good gracious, there is ‘Abdu’l-Bahá."

  When I first arrived in the Holy Land, there were two or three things about the… · Various

• "My gratitude is deepened by the miraculous recovery of its gifted architect, Sutherland Maxwell, whose illness was pronounced hopeless by physicians."

  When my father fell desperately ill in the winter of 1949-50 his condition was… · Various

• "You forget, I am a mountaineer."

  When Shoghi Effendi completed the construction of the Shrine of the Báb on… · Various

• "Swallow it, it is good for you."

  When Shoghi Effendi was beginning to write The Advent of Divine Justice he was… · Various

• "Forgive me, Sir! For twenty-four years I have done evil to You. For twenty-four years You have shown only goodness to me. Now I know that I have bene wrong. Please forgive me!"

  While ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was a prisoner in Akka, there was a man in that city who… · Various

• "He looked just as old forty years ago when he came to this blessed spot for the first time. Now he has come never to leave. Are you well and happy? How can you descend and ascend the mountain every day?"

  While ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was walking in the rose-garden he passed by Hájí Mullah Abou… · Various

• "Hast thou not received thy new overcoat? I have brought one for thee. I will send it up for thee. Man must keep his clothes always clean and spotless."

  While ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was walking in the rose-garden he passed by Hájí Mullah Abou… · Various

• "I am not particular about my outward clothes, but the robe of the virtue of God is necessary for us."

  While ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was walking in the rose-garden he passed by Hájí Mullah Abou… · Various

• "I am engaged in eating God, in cooking God and burning him"

  While riding in the countryside of Nur, Bahá’u’lláh came across a dervish · Various

• "The condition of your release? Exile!"

  Whilst her beloved husband was in prison, Navvab, the wife of Bahá’u’lláh, a… · Various

• "which means go in God’s safe keeping."

  Why Do Manifestations Appear in Human Form · Various

• "Do you know how parrots are taught to speak?"

  Why Do Manifestations Appear in Human Form · Various

• "The administration of the Cause is to be conceived as an"

  An Instrument, Not a Substitute: Shoghi Effendi on the Administrative Order · Shoghi Effendi

• "instrument and not a substitute for the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh."

  An Instrument, Not a Substitute: Shoghi Effendi on the Administrative Order · Shoghi Effendi

• "Dissociate the administrative principles of the Cause from the"

  An Instrument, Not a Substitute: Shoghi Effendi on the Administrative Order · Shoghi Effendi

• "purely spiritual and humanitarian teachings would be tantamount"

  An Instrument, Not a Substitute: Shoghi Effendi on the Administrative Order · Shoghi Effendi

• "to a mutilation of the body of the Cause, a separation that can"

  An Instrument, Not a Substitute: Shoghi Effendi on the Administrative Order · Shoghi Effendi

• "only result in the disintegration of its component parts, and"

  An Instrument, Not a Substitute: Shoghi Effendi on the Administrative Order · Shoghi Effendi

• "the extinction of the Faith itself."

  An Instrument, Not a Substitute: Shoghi Effendi on the Administrative Order · Shoghi Effendi

• "But why don’t they just tell me what they want to know? They keep talking around the subject instead of the heart."

  You can’t feel the precision of mind · Various

• "I don’t have time to read all of these pages. Now why don’t you correspond and find out exactly what the question is, and then give it to me and I’ll give them the answer."

  You can’t feel the precision of mind · Various

• "Well, I went to Jerusalem, and I told Mr. Smith, and I talked with him,…"

  You can’t feel the precision of mind · Various

• "No, no, Mr. Smith said so-and-so in Jerusalem, and that’s all the things that should be answered."

  You can’t feel the precision of mind · Various

• "How pleasing is the fragrance that emanates from this envelope. Make haste, open it and see where it comes from. Make Haste."

  Yunis Khan recounts the following story regarding the Master's continuing… · Various

• "He is not dead. He lives on in the Kingdom of God."

  Yunis Khan recounts the following story regarding the Master's continuing… · Various