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your Father which is in heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on

the good, and sendeth down the rain of His mercy on the just and on the unjust.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization

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May the assembled believers now but a tiny nucleus of the Bahá’í
Commonwealth of the future so exemplify that spirit of universal love and
fellowship as to evoke in the minds of their associates the vision of that future

City of God which the almighty arm of Bahá’u’lláh can alone establish.

Shoghi Effendi, Bahá’í Administration

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There is very little Divine love in the world to-day, but a great deal of intellectual
reasoning, which is an entirely different thing, and springs from the mind and

not the heart.

Shoghi Effendi, The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá’í Community

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For I say unto you that He has chosen you to be His messengers of love
throughout the world, to be His bearers of spiritual gifts to man, to be the means
of spreading unity and concord on the earth." "Perchance," He remarked on

another occasion, "God willing, this terrestrial world may become as a celestial
mirror upon which we may behold the imprint of the traces of Divinity, and the
fundamental qualities of a new creation may be re ected from the reality of love
shining in human hearts." To this end do all your efforts tend.

Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the World, 5 Dec, 2013

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