Bahá’í Quotes

Prayer - Grace

He does not feel that the friends should make a practice of saying grace or of teaching it to children. This is not part of the Bahá’í Faith, but a Christian practice, and as the Cause embraces members of all races and religions we should be careful not to introduce into it the customs of our previous beliefs. Bahá’u’lláh has given us the obligatory prayers, also prayers before sleeping, for travellers, etc. We should not introduce a new set of prayers He has not specified, when He has given us already so many, for so may occasions.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 459

Quote of the Day

Fidal 13 Jalal 183 B.E.

If a person talks to you as an unpleasant duty, with no love or pleasure in his meeting with you, do you wish to converse with him?

‘Abdu’l-Bahá – The Compilation of Compilations vol II, p. 236