Rainn's Quotes:
1. "The Blessed Beauty often remarked: These are four qualities which I love to see manifested in people: First, enthusiasm and courage. Second, a face wreathed in smiles and a radiant countenance. Third, that they see all things with their own eyes and not through the eyes of others. Fourth, the ability to carry a task, once begun, through to it's end." - Memories of Bahá'u'lláh, Compiled by Mr. Furutan
2. "Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time." - Abdu'l-Bahá
3. "The first teaching of Bahá'u'lláh is the duty incumbent upon all to investigate reality. It means that man must forget all hearsay and examine the truth for himself." - Abdu'l-Bahá
4. "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." - Shoghi Effendi
5. "I rejoice to hear that thou hast taken pains with thine art, for in this wonderful new age, art is worship. The more though strivest to perfect it, the closer wilt thou come to God. What bestowal could be greater than this, that one's art should be even as the act of worshiping the Lord? That is to say, when thy fingers grasp the paintbrush, it is as if thou wert at prayer in the temple." - Abdu'l-Bahá
6.
a) "Observe my commandments for love of my
Beauty."
b) "Think not that I have revealed a mere code of laws, nay rather, I have unsealed the choicest of wines with the fingers of might and power." -Bahá'u'lláh, Kitabi Aqdas
7. "The great thing is to 'Live the Life' to have our lives so saturated with the Divine teaching and the Bahá'í Spirit that people cannot fail to see a joy, a power, a love, a purity, a radiance, an efficiency in our character and work that will distinguish us from worldly-minded people and make people wonder what is the secret of this new life in us. We must become entirely selfless and devoted to God so that every day and every moment we see to do only what God would have us do and in the way He would have us do it." -Shoghi Effendi