Stress
It is interesting to note as well that Shoghi Effendi encouraged the believers to study the Dawn-Breakers, which he described as an “unfailing instrument to allay distress.”
- Universal House of Justice to an individual believer, 23 October 1994
Cannot modern men and women be cured of hypertension and begin through the Word once again to find the lost certainty? Through faith will come serenity and maturity.
- Helen Reed Bishop’s Introduction to the 1950 Edition of the Kitab-i-Iqan, p. ix
Were they not -- our ancestors -- the same breed of men? Cannot modern men and women be cured of hypertension and begin through the Word once again to find the lost certainty? Through faith will come serenity and maturity.
- Bahá’u’lláh, Kitab-i-Iqan, p. ix
Tension derives from the fact that "In man there are two natures; his spiritual or higher nature and his material or lower nature."
- The Universal House of Justice, Messages 1963 to 1986, p. 662
Quote of the Day
Fidal 2 Ala 182 B.E.
Any soul from among the believers of Bahá’u’lláh who attains to this station, will become known as the Apostle of Bahá’u’lláh. Therefore strive ye with heart and soul -- so that ye may reach this lofty and exalted position, be established on the throne of everlasting glory, and crown your heads with the shining diadem of the Kingdom, whose brilliant jewels may irradiate upon centuries and cycles.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá – Bahá’í World Faith, p. 423