Bahá’í Quotes

Life Vein

This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious bounty.

- Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 326

Distance is annihilated and prevents not the close and intimate association of two souls that are closely attached in heart even though they may be in two different countries.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, "Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 101

Quote of the Day

Istiqlal 14 Kamal 183 B.E.

We are confident that the Army of Light, growing in strength and unity will, by 1973, the centenary year of the revelation of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, have scaled the heights of yet another peak in the path leading ultimately to the broad uplands of the Most Great Peace.

The Universal House of Justice – Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1968-1973, p. 72