Copper Gold
For instance, consider the substance of copper. Were it to be protected in its own mine from becoming solidified, it would, within the space of seventy years, attain to the state of gold.
- Bahá’u’lláh, The Ki tab-i-Ian, p. 157
The copper of scorn and derision will be transmuted into the gold of honor and praise.
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í Scriptures, p. 547
Quote of the Day
Jalal 5 Izzat 183 B.E.
No member may be required to leave the meeting, even though personally involved inthe matter to be discussed, although any member may ask permission to be absent from such discussion, and the decision whether or not to grant such permission rests with the Assembly itself.
Universal House of Justice – 18 Nov. 1973, cited in Hawaiian Bahá’í News, #82