" ... O Lord my God! I give Thee thanks inasmuch as Thou hast called me into being in Thy days ..."

"Glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! I give Thee thanks inasmuch as Thou hast called me into being in Thy days, and infused into me Thy love and Thy knowledge. I beseech Thee, by Thy name whereby the goodly pearls of Thy wisdom and Thine utterance were brought forth out of the treasuries of the hearts of such of Thy servants as are nigh unto Thee, and through which the Day-Star of Thy name, the Compassionate, hath shed its radiance upon all that are in Thy heaven and on Thy earth, to supply me, by Thy grace and bounty, with Thy wondrous and hidden bounties." ...

-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, p. 177

... "Methinks, they are like the angels which Thou hast created of snow and of fire." ...

... "The hearts that yearn after Thee, O my God, are burnt up with the fire of their longing for Thee, and the eyes of them that love Thee weep sore by reason of their crushing separation from Thy court, and the voice of the lamentation of such as have set their hopes on Thee hath gone forth throughout Thy dominions.

Thou hast Thyself, O my God, protected them, by Thy sovereign might, from both extremities. But for the burning of their souls and the sighing of their hearts, they would be drowned in the midst of their tears, and but for the flood of their tears they would be burnt up by the fire of their hearts and the heat of their souls. Methinks, they are like the angels which Thou hast created of snow and of fire. Wilt Thou, despite such vehement longing, O my God, debar them from Thy presence, or drive them away, notwithstanding such fervor, from the door of Thy mercy? All hope is ready to be extinguished in the hearts of Thy chosen ones, O my God! Where are the breezes of Thy grace? They are hemmed in on all sides by their enemies; where are the ensigns of Thy triumph which Thou didst promise in Thy Tablets?" ...


-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh , pp. 157-158

In an unprecedented symbolic act senior cleric calls for religious co-existence in Iran ...

 

Ayatollah Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani
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"Consort with all religions with amity and concord, 

that they may inhale from you the sweet fragrance of God. 

Beware lest amidst men the flame of foolish ignorance 

overpower you. All things proceed from God 

and unto Him they return. 

He is the source of all things and 

in Him all things are ended."

 -Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 144, p. 72

"Who is there that hath cried after Thee, and whose prayer hath remained unanswered? ..."

..."Who is there that hath cried after Thee, and whose prayer hath remained unanswered? Where is he to be found who hath reached forth towards Thee, and whom Thou hast failed to approach? Who is he that can claim to have fixed his gaze upon Thee, and toward whom the eye of Thy loving-kindness hath not been directed? I bear witness that Thou hadst turned toward Thy servants ere they had turned toward Thee, and hadst remembered them ere they had remembered Thee. All grace is Thine, O Thou in Whose hand is the kingdom of Divine gifts and the source of every irrevocable decree."...

-Bahá'u'lláh,  Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, p.254

"He shall not be asked of His doings and His might is equal unto all things."

"God testifieth to the unity of His Godhood and to the singleness of His own Being. On the throne of eternity, from the inaccessible heights of His station, His tongue proclaimeth that there is none other God but Him. He Himself, independently of all else, hath ever been a witness unto His own oneness, the revealer of His own nature, the glorifier of His own essence. He, verily, is the All-Powerful, the Almighty, the Beauteous.

He is supreme over His servants, and standeth over His creatures. In His hand is the source of authority and truth. He maketh men alive by His signs, and causeth them to die through His wrath. He shall not be asked of His doings and His might is equal unto all things. He is the Potent, the All-Subduing. He holdeth within His grasp the empire of all things, and on His right hand is fixed the Kingdom of His Revelation. His power, verily, embraceth the whole of creation. Victory and overlordship are His; all might and dominion are His; all glory and greatness are His. He, of a truth, is the All-Glorious, the Most Powerful, the Unconditioned."

-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, pp. 86-87

"The minds of the profoundest thinkers are sore perplexed as they contemplate the ocean of Thy knowledge ..."

"O Thou Who dealest equitably with all who are in heaven and on earth, and rulest over the kingdom of Thy creation and of Thy Revelation! I testify that every man of equity hath recognized his unfairness in the face of the revelation of the splendors of the Day-Star of Thy Justice, and the ablest of pens hath confessed its impotence before the movement of Thy most exalted Pen.

By Thy life, O Thou the Possessor of all names! The minds of the profoundest thinkers are sore perplexed as they contemplate the ocean of Thy knowledge, and the heaven of Thy wisdom, and the Luminary of Thy grace. How can he who is but a creation of Thy will claim to know what is with Thee, or to conceive Thy nature?" ...

-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, p. 55





Dorthea Lange

"I swear by Thy glory! I wish only what Thou wishest, and cherish only what Thou cherishest."

“I have no will of mine own, O my Lord, and my Master and my Ruler, before the indications of Thy will, and can have no purpose in the face of the revelation of Thy purpose. I swear by Thy glory! I wish only what Thou wishest, and cherish only what Thou cherishest. What I have chosen for myself is what Thou hast Thyself chosen for me, O Thou the Possessor of my soul!”

-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, p. 193

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