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We Desire To Show Favor

Guidance to Reflect On…

“There is nothing that brings success in the Faith like service. Service is the
magnet which draws the divine confirmations. Thus, when a person is
active, they are blessed by the Holy Spirit. When they are inactive, the Holy

Spirit cannot find a repository in their being, and thus they are deprived of
its healing and quickening rays.”
— From a letter dated 12 July 1952 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi

“The Holy Spirit it is which, through the mediation of the Prophets of God,
teaches spiritual virtues to man and enables him to attain Eternal Life. All
these blessings are brought to man by the Holy Spirit…”

— Abdu’l-Baha

“KNOW thou of a certainty that Love is the secret of God’s holy
Dispensation, the manifestation of the All-Merciful, the fountain of spiritual
outpourings. Love is heaven’s kindly light, the Holy Spirit’s eternal breath

that vivifieth the human soul.”
— Abdu’l-Baha

“O Son of Being! With the hands of power I made thee and with the fingers
of strength I created thee; and within thee have I placed the essence of My
light: be thou content with it and seek naught else, for My work is perfect
and My command is binding. Question it not, nor have a doubt thereof.”

—Baha’u’llah

“His Holiness Christ says: Blessed are the poor, for theirs shall be the

Kingdom of Heaven. 2 In other words: Blessed are the nameless and
traceless poor, for they are the leaders of mankind. Likewise it is said in the

Qur’án: “ And We desire to show favor to those who were brought low in the
land, and to make them spiritual leaders among men, and to make of them

Our heirs.” 3 Or, we wish to grant a favor to the impotent souls and suffer
them to become the inheritors of the Messengers and Prophets.”

— Tablets of the Divine Plan