Bahai Universal House of Justice Quotes

Wealth has no source but labor

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night

If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

Developing good investments in Africa is by and large the best for the people of Africa that have a job, that have electricity, that might have clean water, that might have those things that we in the West take horribly for granted.

One thing I never worry about is money, because I have my health and my family, and I can always go back to work.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

When people say, 'Religion is all right for some, but I am not religious, and it means nothing to me,' is it because they have not experienced the uplift that comes from sacrificing for and serving their fellowmen?

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

Everyone should work; it's good for the soul.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

If you say you don't have time to do it once a day, then you're the one who probably needs it twice a day.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.