" ... kindle within your hearts the everlasting torch of divine guidance."

"O MY FRIENDS! Quench ye the lamp of error, and kindle within your hearts the everlasting torch of divine guidance. For ere long the assayers of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the Adored, accept naught but purest virtue and deeds of stainless holiness."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, Persian No. 35 p. 34

"Barter not the garden of eternal delight for the dust-heap of a mortal world."

"O OFFSPRING OF DUST! Be not content with the ease of a passing day, and deprive not thyself of everlasting rest. Barter not the garden of eternal delight for the dust-heap of a mortal world. Up from thy prison ascend unto the glorious meads above, and from thy mortal cage wing thy flight unto the paradise of the Placeless."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, Persian No. 39, p. 36

" ... wish not the abasement of anyone, that thine own abasement be not exposed."

"O COMPANION OF MY THRONE! Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great; and wish not the abasement of anyone, that thine own abasement be not exposed. Live then the days of thy life, that are less than a fleeting moment, with thy mind stainless, thy heart unsullied, thy thoughts pure, and thy nature sanctified, so that, free and content, thou mayest put away this mortal frame, and repair unto the mystic paradise and abide in the eternal kingdom for evermore."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh. Persian No. 44, p. 37

"Be forbearing one with another ..."

"In the third of the most holy lines writ and recorded in the Ruby Tablet by the pen of the unseen this is revealed:

 O BRETHREN! Be forbearing one with another and set not your affections on things below. Pride not yourselves in your glory, and be not ashamed of abasement. By My beauty! I have created all things from dust, and to dust will I return them again."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, Persian No. 43, 9. 39

" ... for poverty is followed by riches, and riches are followed by poverty ..."

"O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Be not troubled in poverty nor confident in riches, for poverty is followed by riches, and riches are followed by poverty. Yet to be poor in all save God is a wondrous gift, belittle not the value thereof, for in the end it will make thee rich in God, and thus thou shalt know the meaning of the utterance, “In truth ye are the poor,” and the holy words, “God is the all-possessing,” shall even as the true morn break forth gloriously resplendent upon the horizon of the lover’s heart, and abide secure on the throne of wealth."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, Persian No. 51, p. 40

"Tell the rich of the midnight sighing of the poor ..."

"O CHILDREN OF DUST! Tell the rich of the midnight sighing of the poor, lest heedlessness lead them into the path of destruction, and deprive them of the Tree of Wealth. To give and to be generous are attributes of Mine; well is it with him that adorneth himself with My virtues."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, Persian No. 49, p. 39

"Know ye in truth that wealth is a mighty barrier between the seeker and his desire, the lover and his beloved."

"O YE THAT PRIDE YOURSELVES ON MORTAL RICHES! Know ye in truth that wealth is a mighty barrier between the seeker and his desire, the lover and his beloved. The rich, but for a few, shall in no wise attain the court of His presence nor enter the city of content and resignation. Well is it then with him, who, being rich, is not hindered by his riches from the eternal kingdom, nor deprived by them of imperishable dominion. By the Most Great Name! The splendor of such a wealthy man shall illuminate the dwellers of heaven even as the sun enlightens the people of the earth!"

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh, Persian No. 53, p. 41