Shoghi Effendi Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 11 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Shoghi Effendi.
Famous Quotes By Shoghi Effendi
For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity. — Shoghi Effendi
We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being refilled from an invisible source. To be continually giving out for the good of our fellows undeterred by fear of poverty and reliant on the unfailing bounty of the Source of all wealth and all good
this is the secret of right living. — Shoghi Effendi
It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action. — Shoghi Effendi
It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself ... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right. — Shoghi Effendi
"The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life." (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, February 18, 1954) — Shoghi Effendi
Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character. — Shoghi Effendi
The troubles of this world pass,
and what we have left is what we have made of our souls ... — Shoghi Effendi
We cannot segregate the human heart from the environment outside us and say that once one of these is reformed everything will be improved. Man is organic with the world. His inner life moulds the environment and is itself also deeply affected by it. The one acts upon the other and every abiding change in the life of man is the result of these mutual reactions. — Shoghi Effendi
Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future. — Shoghi Effendi
We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves. — Shoghi Effendi