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Cleansing one’s “temple of being”

O Son of Man! The temple of being is My throne; cleanse it of all things, that there I may be established and there I may abide. 
- Baha’u’llah  (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)

Preventing sadness enter one’s heart

When your heart is filled with the love of God there will be no room for sorrow. There will only be love and happiness.  
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha  (Words of 'Abdu'l-Baha recorded by Mrs. Crockett; Star of the West, vol. 1, no. 9, August 20, 1910)

“Mental faculties” are “inherent properties of the soul”

…concerning mental faculties, they are in truth of the inherent properties of the soul, even as the radiation of light is the essential property of the sun.  
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha  (‘Tablet to August Forel’)

To “play nobly our part”

…if we rise to play nobly our part every deficiency in our lives will be more than compensated by the all-conquering spirit of His grace and power.  
- Shoghi Effendi  (Excerpt from a letter dated 3 June 1925 to Bahá'í Convention, ‘Bahá'í Administration’)