Bahá’í Quotes

Contagious

If you are sad, and pass a child who is laughing, the child, seeing your sad face, will cease to laugh, not knowing why.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 124

One must protect and safeguard the blessed souls from the breaths and fatal spiritual diseases; otherwise violation, like the plague, will become a contagion and all will perish.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 437

If you put a leper in a room with healthy people, he cannot catch their health; on the contrary they are very likely to catch his horrible ailment.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 188

Quote of the Day

Kamal 19 Masail 182 B.E.

What is at stake is the participation of the individual in those aspects of community life internal to the body of the followers of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings, not his or her civil rights.

Universal House of Justice to a National Spiritual Assembly – April 2013