Tag: "Encouragement"

tag name:	Encouragement	type:	Administration; Institute process; Virtues
web link:	bahai-library.com/tags/Encouragement
related tags:	Courage; Empowerment
Inventory subject:	Praise and encouragement
notes:	"... Be kind to all people, love humanity, consider all mankind as your relations and servants of the most high God. Strive day and night that animosity and contention may pass away from the hearts of men, that all religions shall become reconciled and the nations love each other so that no racial, religious or political prejudice may remain and the world of humanity behold God as the beginning and end of all existence. God has created all, and all return to God. Therefore, love humanity with all your heart and soul..." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, talk #79, 29 August 1912 "... Know that this matter of instruction, of character rectification and refinement, of heartening and encouraging the child, is of the utmost importance, for such are basic principles of God..." – Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, #111 "... Your National Assembly and the Local Assemblies must not react automatically to every mistake, but distinguish between those that are self-correcting with the passage of time and do no particular harm to the community and those which require Assembly intervention. Related to this is the tendency of the friends to criticize each other at the slightest provocation, whereas the Teachings call upon them to encourage each other. Such tendencies are of course motivated by a deep love for the Faith, a desire to see it free of any flaw. But human beings are not perfect. The Local Assemblies and the friends must be helped through your example and through loving counsel to refrain from such a pattern of criticism, which stunts the growth and development of the community. You should also be fearful of laying down too many rules and regulations. The Cause is not so fragile that a degree of mistakes cannot be tolerated. When you feel that certain actions may become trends with harmful consequences, you may, instead of making a new rule, discuss the matter with the Counselors, enlisting their support in educating the friends in a manner that will improve their understanding and their conduct..." – Universal House of Justice, letter dated 19 May 1994, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States
references:	bahaiquotes.com/subject/encouragement; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Encourage

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