Bahá’í Quotes

Assemblies - Loving Parents

He indicated that a National Assembly should be like a loving parent, watching over and helping its children, and not like a stern judge, waiting for an opportunity to display his judicial powers.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 34

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Istiqlal 9 Asma 183 B.E.

And We ask Him to make this dark calamity a buckler for the body of His saints, and to protect them thereby from sharp swords and piercing blades. Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – A Traveller's Narrative, p. 80