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The proclamation of the Oneness of Mankind—the head corner-stone of Bahá’u’lláh’s all-embracing dominion—can under no circumstances be compared with such expressions of pious hope as have been uttered in the past…
It implies at once a warning and a promise—a warning that in it lies the sole means for the salvation of a greatly suffering world, a promise that its realization is at hand.

Shoghi Effendi
The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh
http://www.bahai.org/r/233363700
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BahaiWritngServ 1d ago

“The Call of God,” ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá has written, “when raised, breathed a new life into the body of mankind, and infused a new spirit into the whole creation. It is for this reason that the world hath been moved to its depths, and the hearts and consciences of men been quickened. Erelong the evidences of this regeneration will be revealed, and the fast asleep will be awakened.”

‘Abdu’l‑Bahá
qtd. in The World Order of Bahá’u’llah
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BahaiWritngServ 2d ago

Adorn thyself with My virtues, in such wise that should anyone stretch forth the hand of oppression against thee, thou wouldst neither take notice nor contend with him. Leave him to the judgement of thy Lord, the All-Powerful, the Almighty, the Self-Subsisting, and be thou long-suffering under all conditions.

Bahá’u’lláh
Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh
www.bahai.org/r/228892775
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BahaiWritngServ 3d ago

Peerless is this Day, for it is as the eye to past ages and centuries, and as a light unto the darkness of the times.

Bahá'u'lláh
Bahá'u'lláh quoted in The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 78
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BahaiWritngServ 4d ago

The progress of the world, the development of nations, the tranquillity of peoples, and the peace of all who dwell on earth are among the principles and ordinances of God.

Bahá'u'lláh
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 130
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BahaiWritngServ 5d ago

The declared purpose of history’s series of prophetic revelations, therefore, has been not only to guide the individual seeker on the path of personal salvation, but to prepare the whole of the human family for the great eschatological Event lying ahead, through which the life of the world will itself be entirely transformed.

The Universal House of Justice
One Common Faith
www.bahai.org/r/262850450
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BahaiWritngServ 6d ago

Bahá’u’lláh has said that learning can be the veil between the soul of man and the eternal truth; in other words, between man and the knowledge of God. We have seen that many people who become very advanced in the study of modern physical sciences are led to deny God, and to deny His Prophets. That does not mean that God and the Prophets have not existed and do not exist. It only means that knowledge has become a veil between their hearts and the light of God.

Shoghi Effendi
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BahaiWritngServ Jun 13

To whatever heights the mind of the most exalted of men may soar, however great the depths which the detached and understanding heart can penetrate, such mind and heart can never transcend that which is the creature of their own conceptions and the product of their own thoughts…

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh
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BahaiWritngServ Jun 12

If ye follow Me, ye shall behold that which ye were promised, and I will make you My companions in the dominion of My majesty and the intimates of My beauty in the heaven of My power forevermore.

Bahá’u’lláh
The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, Súriy-i-Haykal, para. 125.
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BahaiWritngServ Jun 11

Leaders of religion, in every age, have hindered their people from attaining the shores of eternal salvation, inasmuch as they held the reins of authority in their mighty grasp. Some for the lust of leadership, others through want of knowledge and understanding, have been the cause of the deprivation of the people.

Bahá’u’lláh
Bahá’í Sacred Writings, part I, no. 8, para. 12.1.
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