Bahá’í Quotes

Literacy

It is a great mistake to believe that because people are illiterate or live primitive lives, they are lacking in either intelligence or sensibility. On the contrary, they may well look on us with the evils of our civilization, with its moral corruption, its ruinous wars, its hypocrisy and conceit, as people who merit watching with both suspicion and contempt. We should meet them as equals, well-wishers, people who admire and respect their ancient decent, and who feel that they will be interested as we are in a living religion and not in the dead forms of present-day churches.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 523

Quote of the Day

Idal 17 Qudrat 182 B.E.

They, however much buffeted by present circumstances, and no matter how perilous the path they now tread, must press forward unafraid of persecution, scorn or calumny, towards the shining goal they have set themselves to attain.

Shoghi Effendi – Dawn of a New Day, p. 127