Bahá’í Quotes

Renounce

Today the confirmations of the Kingdom of Bahá are with those who renounce themselves, forget their own opinions, cast aside personalities and are thinking of the welfare of others.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Star of the West, Vol. XVII, p. 348

The 'Master Key' to self-mastery is self- forgetting. The road to the palace of life is through the path of renunciation.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Star of the West, Vol. XVII, p. 348

. . . renouncement . . . giveth gradual repose and tranquility.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’í World Faith, p. 335

Quote of the Day

Fidal 17 Sultan 182 B.E.

Under no circumstances should Bahá’ís drink. It is unambiguously forbidden in the Tablet of Bahá’u’lláh, that there is no excuse for them even touching it in the form of a toast, or in a burning plum pudding; in fact, in any way.

Shoghi Effendi – Lights of Guidance, p. 349