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

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

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.