Bahá’í Quotes

Pleasure

It demands daily vigilance in the control of one's carnal desires and corrupt inclinations. It calls for the abandonment of a frivolous conduct, with its excessive attachment to trivial and often misdirected pleasures.

- Shoghi Effendi: The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 30

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Fidal 8 Jamal 183 B.E.

The members of these Assemblies, on their part, must disregard utterly their own likes and dislikes, their personal interests and inclinations, and concentrate their minds upon those measures that will conduce to the welfare and happiness of the Bahá’í Community and promote the common weal.

Shoghi Effendi – Principles of Bahá’í Administration, p. 41