New Posts For Thread: Words to ponderhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder[This is the first entry of weekly miscellaneous quotes from Baha'i sources other than Scripture that welcome discussion.]Education is seen by Bahá'ís as a continuous and creative process. Its aim is to develop the capacities latent inThe true worshipper, while praying, should endeavour not so much to ask God to fulfil his wishes and desires, but rather to adjust these and make them conform to the Divine Will. Only through such an attitude can one derive that feeling of inner pehttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=532404089#532404089The true worshipper, while praying, should endeavour not so much to ask God to fulfil his wishes and desires, but rather to adjust these and make them conform to the Divine Will. Only through such an attitude can one derive that feeling of inner peSun, 19 May 2013 09:43:43 -0500In the human body, every cell, every organ, every nerve has its part to play. When all do so the body is healthy, vigorous, radiant, ready for very call made upon it. No cell, however humble, lives apart from the body, whether in serving it or receivhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=532203303#532203303In the human body, every cell, every organ, every nerve has its part to play. When all do so the body is healthy, vigorous, radiant, ready for very call made upon it. No cell, however humble, lives apart from the body, whether in serving it or receivSun, 12 May 2013 09:13:40 -0500Childhood is but for a dayWhile they are at your side, love these little ones to the uttermost.Forget yourself.Serve them; care for them;lavish all your tenderness on them.Value your good fortune while it is with you,and let nothing of the sweetnesshttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=532011535#532011535Childhood is but for a dayWhile they are at your side, love these little ones to the uttermost.Forget yourself.Serve them; care for them;lavish all your tenderness on them.Value your good fortune while it is with you,and let nothing of the sweetnessSun, 05 May 2013 09:40:52 -0500In developing countries, but, of course, not in these countries alone, women remain the beasts of burden. It is they who must bear the children, grow the food, care for the home, travel to the market, obtain the fuel, carry the water, and then servehttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=531827493#531827493In developing countries, but, of course, not in these countries alone, women remain the beasts of burden. It is they who must bear the children, grow the food, care for the home, travel to the market, obtain the fuel, carry the water, and then serveSun, 28 Apr 2013 09:22:57 -0500In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá'u'lláh censures in very strong terms all acts of strife, contention and violence. He absolutely forbids His followers to engage in anything from which the odour of mischief and sedition can be detected.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=531593181#531593181In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá'u'lláh censures in very strong terms all acts of strife, contention and violence. He absolutely forbids His followers to engage in anything from which the odour of mischief and sedition can be detected.Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:58:05 -0500Sorrow, tragedy, illness, death, touch at some point every individual, millionaire or beggar. If you can not feel deeply, be it joy or agony of soul, you are not much of a human being, for to feel is the very hallmark of living matter. And if, whenhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=531386607#531386607Sorrow, tragedy, illness, death, touch at some point every individual, millionaire or beggar. If you can not feel deeply, be it joy or agony of soul, you are not much of a human being, for to feel is the very hallmark of living matter. And if, whenSun, 14 Apr 2013 09:26:10 -0500Bahá'í teachings on sexual morality center on marriage and the family as the bedrock of the whole structure of human society and are designed to protect and strengthen that divine institution. Thus Bahá'í Law restricts perhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=531068557#531068557Bahá'í teachings on sexual morality center on marriage and the family as the bedrock of the whole structure of human society and are designed to protect and strengthen that divine institution. Thus Bahá'í Law restricts perSun, 07 Apr 2013 09:28:07 -0500Each individual person comes into the world as a trust of the whole, and it is this feature of human existence that constitutes the real foundation of the social, economic and cultural rights that the United Nations Charter and its related documentshttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=530142127#530142127Each individual person comes into the world as a trust of the whole, and it is this feature of human existence that constitutes the real foundation of the social, economic and cultural rights that the United Nations Charter and its related documentsMon, 25 Mar 2013 09:33:27 -0500To continue to be a member of the church places a Bahá'í in an insincere position - for we believe the Christ has come again, in Bahá'u'lláh, and that all His promises have been gloriously fulfilled. No church would tolerahttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=529916529#529916529To continue to be a member of the church places a Bahá'í in an insincere position - for we believe the Christ has come again, in Bahá'u'lláh, and that all His promises have been gloriously fulfilled. No church would toleraSun, 17 Mar 2013 10:37:42 -0500If you read the utterances of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with selflessness and care andconcentrate upon them, you will discover truths unknown to you before and will obtain an insight into the problems thttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43861/20053689/Words_to_ponder?post_id=529700181#529700181If you read the utterances of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with selflessness and care andconcentrate upon them, you will discover truths unknown to you before and will obtain an insight into the problems tSun, 10 Mar 2013 10:30:14 -0500