The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured.… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls, so it is to this… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share
The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
Regarding the passage on p. 163 of the 'Gleanings': The creatures which Bahá'u'lláh states to be found on every planet cannot be considered to… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
“"The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
