A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.

Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.