Williamsburg, USA
“O ye beloved of the Lord! Commit not that which defileth the limpid stream of love or destroyeth the sweet fragrance of friendship. By the righteousness of the Lord! Ye were created to show love one to another and not perversity and rancour. Take pride not in love for yourselves but in love for your fellow-creatures. Glory not in love for your country, but in love for all mankind.”
-Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah Revealed After the Kitab-i-Aqdas
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Florida, Uruguay
“¡Oh Hijo del Hombre!
Muchos días han pasado sobre ti mientras te ocupabas de tus fantasías y ociosas imaginaciones. Hasta cuándo dormirás en tu lecho? Alza la cabeza por sobre tu sueño, pues el Sol se ha elevado hasta su cénit, y tal vez brille sobre ti con la luz de la belleza.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, PO N° 62, árabe
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Sedona, USA
“That the Manifestations of Divine justice, the Day Springs of heavenly grace, have when they appeared amongst men always been destitute of all earthly dominion and shorn of the means of worldly ascendancy, should be attributed to this same principle of separation and distinction which animateth the Divine Purpose. Were the Eternal Essence to manifest all that is latent within Him, were He to shine in the plentitude of His glory, none would be found to question His power or repudiate His truth. Nay, all created things would be so dazzled and thunderstruck by the evidences of His light as to be reduced to utter nothingness.”
-Baha’u’llah, Gleanings From the Writings of Baha’u’llah
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Yungaburra, Australia
“Illumine my inner being, O my Lord, with the splendors of the Dayspring of Thy Revelation, even as Thou didst illumine my outer being with the morning light of Thy favor.”
-Baha’u’llah, Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah
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Askoy, Norway
”The question arises, therefore, on what basis can the advancement of civilization and the development of human nature continue? It is Bahá’u’lláh’s answer to this question that poses the fundamental challenge of our age. In asserting that “this is the Day in which God’s most excellent favors have been poured out upon men” and that “the world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of the most great, this new World Order,” Bahá’u’lláh points humanity to the fulfillment of the promise that has sustained our race throughout the past thousands of years of civilization. His words envision an entirely new relationship between the regeneration of the individual’s spiritual life and the reconstruction of society.”
-From a letter dated 13 May 1996 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual