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| ABU1004 | Words spoken at Haifa Pilgrim House, 1920-11-16 | 310 | The Baha'is should sacrifice life in the path of each other... It must be so that each one of the friends should prefer others to himself. | PN_1920 p044, PN_1920_heh_haifa p079 | forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; growth of the Cause; martyrs and martyrdom; predictions and prophecies; present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; the golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0972 | Words spoken at Haifa Pilgrim House, 1920-11-21 | 320 | It would be better if they were educated in the same schools, because it would bring love among them... I am in favor of the marriage of the black and white races | PN_1920 p033, PN_1920 p045, PN_1920 p047, PN_1920_heh_haifa p081 | race unity; racial issues; unity in diversity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0022 | Words spoken at High school auditorium in Berkeley, 1912-10-09 | 2050 | Inasmuch as those who are present are especially interested in that which constitutes truth, I shall take truth for my subject this evening. | ECN.287+1053 | divine attributes are within all things; every atom; harmony of science and religion; independent investigation of truth; reality; Manifestation of God as sun; man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation; oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; progressive revelation; renewal of religion; suffering; rejection of Christ; transcendence; unknowability of God; unity; oneness of humanity; unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3346 | Words spoken at Higher Thought center, 1911-11-01 | 30 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | ...it matters not what name each calls himself -- The Great Work is One. Christ is ever in the world of existence | AIL.040, BSTW#207c | Christ; Christianity; oneness; unity of religion; presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; religion as reality; definitions of religion; The Holy Spirit | - | - | |||||||
| ABU1337 | Words spoken at home of Aqa Siyyid Ali Afnan in Akka, 1914-04-22 | 240 | In the neighborhood of Baghdad there lived a man and a Bahá'í by the name of Mohamad, the 'thorn-picker'. He lived about 21 miles away from the city. | DAS.1914-04-22 | detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1068 | Words spoken at home of Lady Blomfield, 1911-09-08 | 300 | I have journeyed by sea and land for the pleasure of seeing you all. I needed a change | SW_v02#12 p.003-004 | goodly deeds; actions; nationalism; love of country; praise of Western values; culture; serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3350 | Words spoken at Hotel Ansonia in New York, 1912-04-18 | 30 | Assuredly, give to the poor. If you give them only words, when they put their hands into their pockets after you have gone, they will find themselves none the richer for you! | DJT.266, BLO_PN#027 | charitable associations; humanitarian activities; humor; jokes; service to others; to the Cause of God; words vs deeds | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2177 | Words spoken at Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart, 1913-04-04 | 120 | I hope that each one of you may become a divine farmer and each one may cultivate a large blessed farm. The real Bahá'í farming is through deeds. | DAS.1913-04-04 | being a source of light; guidance; bringing forth results; fruit; goodly deeds; actions; service to others; to the Cause of God; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3289 | Words spoken at Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart, 1913-04-04 | 30 | I was most happy to see the believers of Germany so holy, so pure and so united | DAS.1913-04-04, SW_v04#09 p.162 | praise and encouragement; teaching the Cause; call to teach; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2193 | Words spoken at Hotel Schenley in Pittsburgh, 1912-05-07 | 120 | The friends here are anxious to know if I like these rooms! They do not know what we had to go through in the past. Imagine the conditions | SW_v19#05 p.140-141 | banishment to; life in 'Akka; humility; meekness; lowliness; suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2118 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-11 | 130 | My work is done. The tree of my life has yielded its fruits. I have set a fire in the world | DAS.1913-12-11, SW_v05#01 p.010 | autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; suffering and imprisonment; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3395 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-12 | 30 | I have been crying at the top of my voice all these years. Now I prefer to choose silence and listen to the melodies of the nightingales of the Paradise of Abha | DAS.1913-12-12 | expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0377 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-13 | 640 | How I longed for the re-appearance of these divine nights!... There is a place in America called Green Acre. It is customary during the months of summer | DAS.1913-12-13, SW_v08#05 p.050x | eulogies; reminiscences; freedom of thought and action; growth of the Cause; love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; praise and encouragement; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1389 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-14 | 230 | In reality the German Baha'is are the embodiment of attraction and enthusiasm. They are Baha'is by deeds and actions. | DAS.1913-12-14 | praise and encouragement; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1708 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-04-01 | 180 | I praise Thee, O God! For Thou hast made the prison a throne in Thy earth, a heaven in Thy heavens, and Orient amongst Thy Orients | BSTW#052w | prayer for protection; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0620 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-12-01 | 460 | When we were in Baghdad several believers including myself started with a large caravan for Kazemayn. Each one of us was riding on a fine horse. | DAS.1914-12-01 | humor; jokes; sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1876 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-12-01 | 160 | Those persons who are firm in the Faith during these days shine like unto the brilliant sun and are the cause of the tranquility of the hearts; but those whose hearts are not set aglow | DAS.1914-12-01 | detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; martyrs and martyrdom; rejection, opposition and persecution; steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0932 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-12-08 | 330 | Once upon a time there was a merchant in the city of Balsora | DAS.1914-12-08, SW_v13#06 p.152x, STAB#007 | selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0509 | Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1915-01-04 | 530 | These childish demonstrations are most shallow in their motives, because they are based on the conquest of the earth which in itself is not permanent. | DAS.1915-01-04 | historical episodes and the lessons of the past; power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; stories; anecdotes; transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0978 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-02-12 | 320 | The air here at Mount Carmel is fragrant and the earth is sweet... Syria is a most wonderful country. It is a world in miniature. | DAS.1914-02-12, SW_v14#05 p.148 | Mount Carmel | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1232 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-02-12 | 260 | The Bible and the Holy Books of other religions must always be studied and be read in the Bahá'í meetings. Their study will widen the circle of one's information | DAS.1914-02-12 | consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; importance of reading the Sacred Writings; methods of teaching the Cause; review of publications; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1549 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-07-23 | 200 | For the time being the proposed delegates to such a Conference must lay aside the discussion of dogmas and Apostles Creeds... If the churches are anxious to win the souls back to Christ they must interpret these 'seven great mysteries' of Christianity according to science and reason | DAS.1914-07-23 | Christian doctrine and practice; harmony of science and religion; interpretation of words and passages in scripture; unity in diversity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1864 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-07-23 | 160 | Having then realized how these holy, spiritual, luminous Manifestations sacrificed their lives, teaching us with deeds and not words... then if we have one grain of loyalty how can we stand by idle | DAS.1914-07-23 | detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; service to others; to the Cause of God; spiritual transformation; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0637 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1919-08-04 | 450 | In the books of Divine Philosophy, the term light is frequently mentioned. Some religious leaders still teach today that by light is meant the accidental phenomenal radiation from the sun | PN_1919 p005 | idolatry; light and darkness; transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0063 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1919-08-06 | 560 | When the mujtahids and Nasiri'd-Din Shah sent Shaykh 'Abdu'l-Husayn to 'Iraq, and he began agitating against the Blessed Perfection | BKOG.143-144x, STAB#078 | power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0011 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1919-08-07 | 2260 | BKOG.057-059x | Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; stories; anecdotes; suffering and imprisonment; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU2679 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1920-09-05 | 80 | I hope the health of the friends is good.... His Holiness Christ was once eating grapes. He said, 'I will not eat grapes again until I eat them anew with you in the Kingdom | SW_v11#16 p.270, PN_1920 p031, PN_1920 p055, PN_1920 p091, PN_1920_heh p013, PN_1920_heh_haifa p020, IHP.118, BLO_PN#046 | station of the Manifestation of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0511 | Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1920-11-04 | 530 | Not one among the former religions, such as the Jews, spoke a word of praise concerning His Holiness Christ or concerning His Holiness Muhammad. | PN_1920_heh p010, PN_1920_heh_haifa p067 | greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; growth of the Cause; newspapers and the media; publications; rejection, opposition and persecution; suffering; rejection of Christ | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3166 | Words spoken at Jenner home in East Sheen, ca. Sep. 1911 | 40 | Blessed are the children, of whom His Holiness Christ said: 'Of such are the Kingdom of Heaven.' Children have no worldly ambitions. Their hearts are pure. We must become like children, crowning our heads with the crown of severance;; purifying our hearts, that we may see God in His Great Manifestations, and obey the laws brought to us by those, His Messengers. | CHH.166, BLO_PN#022 | detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; humility; meekness; lowliness; purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; quotation from or interpretation of the Bible | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2273 | Words spoken at Kinney home in New York, 1912-12-01 | 110 | I desire to go to the Orient... Know this for a certainty that today, the penetrative power in the arteries of the world of humanity, is the power of the Covenant. | SW_v06#14 p.111x, SW_v11#08 p.121x, PN_1912 p025, BSTW#052s | firmness in the Covenant; power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; teaching the Cause; call to teach; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2074 | Words spoken at Krug home in New York, 1912-07-10 | 130 | It is a blessed evening; you are blessed. Blessed souls are gathered here. In reality, this house is illumined... It has become necessary to depart for the Orient... All your efforts must be expended in two ways | PN_1912 p110, BSTW#351b | divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; suffering and imprisonment; teaching the Cause; call to teach; the concourse on high; The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3259 | Words spoken at Persian embassy in New York, 1912-04-23 | 40 | If all the spirits of the air were to congregate together they could not create a salad! | SW_v12#07 p.135+137-140, SW_v12#08 p.145-172, DJT.270, FDA.014, BLO_PN#027 | humor; jokes; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; the human soul; the mind's power of discovery | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0540 | Words spoken at Plaza Hotel in Chicago, 1912-05-02 | 510 | Promulgation of Universal Peace, The | In this Cause consultation is of vital importance, but spiritual conference and not the mere voicing | PUP#031 (p.072-073), SW_v03#04 p.011-012, STAB#060 | apostles; early disciples of Christ; consultation; parliaments; constitutional government; sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; unity in diversity | - | - | |||||||
| ABU1106 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-05 | 290 | The life of the Arabs in the interior is most simple. Their principal food consists of | DAS.1914-05-05, SW_v08#02 p.018-019 | critique of Western values; culture; praise of Eastern values; culture; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2765 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-06 | 70 | It is very strange how the possession of a few spans of earth blinds men to justice and fairness. He become neglectful and heedless | DAS.1914-05-06 | greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; heedlessness and ignorance of the people; piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1001 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-07 | 310 | Although some of the simple folks believe that these ancient monuments of civilization are built by Solomon yet there is no foundation for it. | DAS.1914-05-07 | forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; historical episodes and the lessons of the past; predictions and prophecies; transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2371 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-07 ca. | 100 | If a friend dies and leaves behind some debt, the believers must do their utmost to pay it off to the very last cent. | DAS.1914-05-08 | business; financial; property matters; love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2394 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-07 ca. | 100 | Man is liable to forget things very quickly, but the animals remember longer. If you have been kind to a dog once in your lifetime | DAS.1914-05-08 | characteristics and conduct of true believers; compassion; kindness; kindness to and rights of animals; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0998 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-08 | 310 | During the lifetime of Bahá'u'lláh the inhabitants of the village, Mokeiss, were most anxious that I may buy half of their real estate | DAS.1914-05-08 | autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; business; financial; property matters; detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; personal instructions | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2515 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-09 | 90 | He was caught sleeping by our enemies and they deceived him. He thought after writing and publishing this book all the Persians will honor and respect him | DAS.1914-05-09 | chastisement and requital; power of the Manifestation of God; predictions and prophecies; prophecy and fulfillment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1560 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 200 | God hath made all the phenomena for the sake of man and created man for Himself. We consider that the sun is shining, the clouds are pouring down rain | DAS.1914-05-10 | heedlessness and ignorance of the people; human reality created in the image of God; man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation; purpose; goal of creation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1700 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 180 | Praise be to God that thou art wealthy through the treasury of the Kingdom. True wealth is the wealth of the Kingdom of God. The heart of man must be rich. | DAS.1914-05-10 | greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; high station of the true believer; lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; spiritual transformation; status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2011 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 140 | The first Cause of my happiness is to see your faces radiant with the light of reality and your hearts cleansed and purified with the Water of knowledge. There are two kinds of happiness. | DAS.1914-05-10 | differences in human capacity; human reality created in the image of God; material and spiritual existence; two books; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; spiritual transformation; transcending the material condition; transience; worthlessness of the physical world; walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2268 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 110 | This is self-evident and is in no need of proof. For example the hand corresponds with another hand. No sooner thou takest hold of the hand of thy beloved than a world of feelings and emotions are conveyed | DAS.1914-05-10 | need for an educator; spiritual communication; connections of the heart; the divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2908 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 60 | Vanity is a form of egotism, an excessive desire for notice of approval of one's personal appearance or deeds. It is self-conceit and self-hypnotization. | DAS.1914-05-10 | humility; meekness; lowliness; pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Satan; the Evil One | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3056 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 50 | Consider with what knowledge His holiness Bahá'u'lláh hath favored the Bahá'ís, that if they are given the whole world they will not deny Christ. They love Christ better than their own lives. | DAS.1914-05-10 | sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; suffering; rejection of Christ; the truth of past religions and sacred scriptures | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3383 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10 | 30 | The best man is that person who cheers and gladdens the broken-hearted ones and the worst man is that soul who causes suffering and pain to one's heart. | DAS.1914-05-10 | characteristics and conduct of true believers; compassion; kindness; consolation and comfort; saddening another soul; service to others; to the Cause of God; walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1102 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14 | 290 | In the world of humanity, every person is stimulated by a certain objective-point | DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.117-118 | call to action; idle fancies; lust and passion; pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; spiritual transformation; status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1562 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14 | 200 | I hope that whosoever hears your words, sees your deeds and beholds your manners and behaviors may declare that these people are real Bahá'ís | DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.118 | call to action; divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; growth of the Cause; prophecy and fulfillment; sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1937 | Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14 | 150 | The condition of faith requires that man may ascend to and abide in the station of sacrifice. Without this attainment one's faith is not perfect. | DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.118 | detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; martyrs and martyrdom; spiritual transformation; steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - |
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