Salisbury, Australia
“We yield thanks to God that, through the potency of His Word, you—the community of His Greatest Name—are cultivating environments wherein true understanding can blossom. Even those enduring imprisonment for the Faith are, by their untold sacrifice and steadfastness, enabling the “hyacinths of knowledge and wisdom” to flower in sympathetic hearts.”
–Universal House of Justice, Ridvan 2012
Ogwen Valley, Wales
“O Son of Spirit! The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, The Hidden words of Bahá’u’lláh
London, UK
“Man should know his own self, and understand those things which lead to loftiness or to abasement, to shame or to honor, to affluence or to poverty. After man has realized his own being, and become mature, then (material) means are required.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Bahá’í Scriptures
Seoul, Korea
“O SON OF SPIRIT! I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting.” -Bahá’u’lláh, The Hidden Words
Oswego, IL, USA
“A person declaring the glad tidings of the appearance of the realities and significances of the Kingdom is like unto a farmer who scatters pure seeds in the rich soil. The spring cloud will pour upon them the rain of bounty, and unquestionably the station of the farmer will be raised in the estimation of the lord of the village, and many harvests will be gathered.”
-ʻAbdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of the Divine Plan
Nanaimo, BC, Canada
“There is no contradiction between true religion and science. When a religion is opposed to science it becomes mere superstition: that which is contrary to knowledge is ignorance.”
-‘Abdu’l-Baha, Paris Talks
Kilkenny, Ireland
“Not until man is tried doth the pure gold distinctly separate from the dross. Torment is the fire of test wherein the pure gold shineth resplendently and the impurity is burned and blackened. At present thou art, praise be to God, firm and steadfast in tests and trials and art not shaken by them.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Lake Victoria, Uganda
“We have decreed, O people, that the highest and last end of all learning be the recognition of Him Who is the Object of all knowledge.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas