Ladysmith, Canada
“O Son of Being! With the hands of power I made thee and with the fingers of strength I created thee; and within thee have I placed the essence of My light. Be thou content with it and seek naught else, for My work is perfect and My command is binding. Question it not, nor have a doubt thereof.”
-Baha’u’llah, Hidden Words
Naperville, USA
“Purge your sight, that ye may perceive its glory with your own eyes, and depend not on the sight of anyone except yourself, for God hath never burdened any soul beyond its power. Thus hath it been sent down unto the Prophets and Messengers of old, and been recorded in all the Scriptures.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh
Queensland, Australia
“Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My name, the Maker, the Creator. Its manifestations are diversified by varying causes, and in this diversity there are signs for men of discernment. Nature is God’s Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world. It is a dispensation of Providence ordained by the Ordainer, the All-Wise.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas
Mentone, USA
“Thoughts are a boundless sea, and the effects and varying conditions of existence are as the separate forms and individual limits of the waves; not until the sea boils up will the waves rise and scatter their pearls of knowledge on the shore of life.”
–Abdu’l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization
Brisbane, Australia
“Every institution of this divinely created Order is one more refuge for a distraught populace; every soul illumined by the light of the sacred Message is one more link in the oneness of mankind, one more servant ministering to the needs of an ailing world.”
-The Universal House of Justice, from a message dated 3 November 1980 to the Bahá’ís of the World
Grosvenor, USA
“Know of a certainty, that in every Dispensation the light of Divine Revelation has been vouchsafed to men in direct proportion to their spiritual capacity.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh