Do you pray? [I Believe In Prayer]
Let your actions cry aloud to the world...
for it is actions that speak to the world and are the cause of the progress of humanity. Our actions will help on the world, will spread civilization, will help the progress of science, and cause the arts to develop. Without action nothing in the material world can be accomplished, neither can words unaided advance a man in the spiritual Kingdom. It is not through lip-service only that the elect of God have attained to holiness, but by patient lives of active service they have brought light into the world.
Therefore strive that your actions day by day may be beautiful prayers.
Turn towards God, and seek always to do that which is right and noble.
Enrich the poor, raise the fallen, comfort the sorrowful,
bring healing to the sick, reassure the fearful,
rescue the oppressed, bring hope to the hopeless, shelter the destitute!
Turn towards God, and seek always to do that which is right and noble.
Enrich the poor, raise the fallen, comfort the sorrowful,
bring healing to the sick, reassure the fearful,
rescue the oppressed, bring hope to the hopeless, shelter the destitute!
If we strive to do all this, then are we true... but if we neglect it, we are not followers of the Light, and we have no right to the name.
God, who sees all hearts, knows how far our lives are the fulfillment of our words.
(Excerpts of a talk by Abdul-Baha, from Paris Talks, the Baha'i Faith)
