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

Istijlal 9 Qudrat 183 B.E.

One gleam from the splendors of Thy Name, the All-Merciful, sufficeth to banish and blot out every trace of sinfulness from the world, and a single breath from the breezes of the Day of Thy Revelation is enough to adorn all mankind with a fresh attire.

Bahá’u’lláh – Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, p. 252