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“inner and outer perfections”

Strain every nerve to acquire both inner and outer perfections, for the fruit of the human tree hath ever been and will ever be perfections both within and without. 
- Baha’u’llah  (The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. I, Excellence in All Things)

Duty to teach

God hath prescribed unto everyone the duty of teaching His Cause. 
- Baha’u’llah  (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated 25 December 1938; ‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)

Sin-covering eye

If ye become aware of a sin committed by another, conceal it, that God may conceal your own sin.  
- Baha'u'llah  (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)

Fire of the love of God

O Friends! You must all be so ablaze in this day with the fire of the love of God that the heat thereof may be manifest in all your veins, your limbs and members of your body…
- Bahá’u’lláh  (Compilation: ‘The Individual and Teaching – Raising the Divine Call’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)