Changing Bad Qualities into Good
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To Ethel Rosenberg, the first English woman to embrace the Bahá’í Faith in her native land, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said, while she was on pilgrimage in the Holy Land in 1901, “We must strive to change our bad qualities into good ones, quick temper must be changed into calmness, pride into humility, falsehood into truth, deceit into frankness, laziness into activity …”
Source: Annamarie Honnold, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, section “Calmness and serenity”, p. 158.
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