Top 60 Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

2. “To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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3. “Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

4. “Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I’m afraid he might just ask me the same question.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

5. “The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

6. “Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

7. “Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

8. “Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

9. “Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

10. “If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

11. “Love everybody, serve everybody.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

12. “When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

13. “If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

14. “Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds...”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

15. “To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

16. “The intellect is good but until it has become the servant of the heart, it is of little avail.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

17. “Love gives life to the lifeless. Love lights a flame in the heart that is cold. Love brings hope to the hopeless and gladdens the hearts of the sorrowful. In the world of existence there is indeed no greater power than the power of love.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

18. “Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

19. “The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

20. “Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the divers elements of this material world, the supreme magnetic force that directeth the movements of the spheres in the celestial realms.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

21. “Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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22. “The home of Religion is the heart.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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23. “If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

24. “Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

25. “Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

26. “The spirit does not need a body, but the body needs spirit, or it cannot live. The soul can live without a body, but the body without a soul dies.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

27. “If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

28. “The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

29. “My heart is in a constant state of thanksgiving.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

30. “Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

31. “If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

32. “Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

33. “The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

34. “Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

35. “It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

36. “Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

37. “Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

38. “If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

39. “Let’s be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let’s make of our lips a censer of the virtues.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

40. “The gift of God to this enlightened age is the knowledge of the oneness of mankind and of the fundamental oneness of religion. War shall cease between nations, and by the will of God the Most Great Peace shall come; the world will be seen as a new world, and all men will live as brothers.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

41. “Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another’s ears nor comprehend with another’s brain. Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

42. “If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

43. “If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it...”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

44. “The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

45. “In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

46. “I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

47. “The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

48. “Help along one another’s projects and plans.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

49. “We declare that love is the cause of the existence of all phenomena and that the absence of love is the cause of disintegration or non-existence.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

50. “Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá