1 February | a.m

Having created the world and all that liveth and moveth therein, He, through the direct operation of His unconstrained and sovereign Will, chose to confer upon man the unique distinction and capacity to know Him and to love Him - a capacity that must needs be regarded as the generating impulse and the primary purpose underlying the whole of creation.

- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 65

I am he, O my God… who recognizeth with downcast countenance the splendors of the light of Thy transcendent glory. I have believed in Thee after Thou didst enable me to know Thy Self, Whom Thou hast revealed to men's eyes through the power of Thy sovereignty and might. Unto Him I have turned, wholly detached from all things, and cleaving steadfastly unto the cord of Thy gifts and favors.

- Baha'u'llah, Prayers and Meditations by Baha'u'llah, p. 80

31 January | p.m

Blessed is the man that hath acknowledged his belief in God and in His signs, and recognized that "He shall not be asked of His doings." Such a recognition hath been made by God the ornament of every belief, and its very foundation.

- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 86

...By faith is meant, first, conscious knowledge, and second, the practice of good deeds.

- Abdu’l-Bahá, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu’l-Bahá Section, p. 383

31 January | a.m

The spirit that animateth the human heart is the knowledge of God, and its truest adorning is the recognition of the truth that "He doeth whatsoever He willeth, and ordaineth that which He pleaseth." Its raiment is the fear of God, and its perfection steadfastness in His Faith. Thus God instructeth whosoever seeketh Him. He, verily, loveth the one that turneth towards Him. There is none other God but Him, the Forgiving, the Most Bountiful.
- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 290

[The Lord] hath chosen thee to love Him and selected thee from among His beings to know Him and distinguished thee particularly with the gift of dazzling light through which the faces of the righteous will shine

- Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of Abdu’l-Bahá v1, p. 159

27 January | p.m

Should a Christian contend, 'How can I deem the Qur’án a testimony while I am unable to understand it?' such a contention would not be acceptable. Likewise the people of the Qur’án disdainfully observe, 'We are unable to comprehend the eloquence of the verses in the Bayán, how can we regard it as a testimony?' Whoever uttereth such words, say unto him, 'O thou untutored one! By what proof hast thou embraced the Religion of Islam? Is it the Prophet on whom thou hast never set eyes? Is it the miracles which thou hast never witnessed? If thou hast accepted Islam unwittingly, wherefore hast thou done so? But if thou hast embraced the Faith by recognizing the Qur’án as the testimony, because thou hast heard the learned and the faithful express their powerlessness before it, or if thou hast, upon hearing the divine verses and by virtue of thy spontaneous love for the True Word of God, responded in a spirit of utter humility and lowliness - a spirit which is one of the mightiest signs of true love and understanding - then such proofs have been and will ever be regarded as sound.'

 

- The Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb, p. 120

14 January | p.m

O SON OF MAN!

Wert thou to speed through the immensity of space and traverse the expanse of heaven, yet thou wouldst find no rest save in submission to Our command and humbleness before Our Face.

- Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words

Behold! God hath laid hold on him who led thee astray. Return unto God, humble, submissive and lowly; verily, He will put away from thee thy sins, for thy Lord, of a certainty, is the Forgiving, the Mighty, the All-Merciful.

- Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 86

13 January | p.m

The Hour that was concealed within the knowledge of God hath struck, whereupon all the atoms of the earth have proclaimed: "The Ancient of Days is come in His great glory! Hasten unto Him, O peoples of the earth, with humble and contrite hearts."

- Baha'u'llah, The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, p. 56

The teacher, when teaching, must be himself fully enkindled, so that his utterance, like unto a flame of fire, may exert influence and consume the veil of self and passion. He must also be utterly humble and lowly so that others may be edified, and be totally self-effaced and evanescent so that he may teach with the melody of the Concourse on high - otherwise his teaching will have no effect.

- Abdu’l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 270

13 January | a.m

[In the Gospel] He saith: "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away."(Luke 21:33.) Thus it is that the adherents of Jesus maintained that the law of the Gospel shall never be annulled, and that whensoever the promised Beauty is made manifest and all the signs are revealed, He must needs re-affirm and establish the law proclaimed in the Gospel, so that there may remain in the world no faith but His faith.... Had they sought with a humble mind from the Manifestations of God in every Dispensation the true meaning of these words revealed in the sacred books...they surely would have been guided to the light of the Sun of Truth, and would have discovered the mysteries of divine knowledge and wisdom.

- Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Iqán, p. 27