因為慾望是一團火焰，已將學者們一生無數的收穫化為灰燼，它是一團吞噬之火，即使是他們積累如浩瀚海洋般的知識也永遠無法熄滅它。有多少這樣的情況發生：一個人雖然擁有人性的每一個屬性，佩戴著真正理解的寶石，但仍然追隨他的激情，直到他的優秀品質超出了節制，他被迫變得”過度”。他的純潔意圖變成了邪惡的意圖，他的屬性不再能看到應有的效益，他慾望的力量使他遠離正直及其報償，走上了危險和黑暗的道路。在上帝和祂的選民以及有洞察力的人看來，良好的品格是一切事物中最優秀和最值得讚揚的，但始終有一個條件：它的散發中心應該是理智和知識，它的基礎應該是真正的節制。

For desire is a flame that has reduced to ashes uncounted lifetime harvests of the learned, a devouring fire that even the vast sea of their accumulated knowledge could never quench. How often has it happened that an individual who was graced with every attribute of humanity and wore the jewel of true understanding, nevertheless followed after his passions until his excellent qualities passed beyond moderation and he was forced into excess. His pure intentions changed to evil ones, his attributes were no longer put to uses worthy of them, and the power of his desires turned him aside from righteousness and its rewards into ways that were dangerous and dark. A good character is in the sight of God and His chosen ones and the possessors of insight, the most excellent and praiseworthy of all things, but always on condition that its center of emanation should be reason and knowledge and its base should be true moderation.

–阿博都巴哈

— The Secret of Divine Civilization

靈性之子啊！在我眼裡，萬象中最可愛的是公義；如你有求於我，就別遠離它；不要忽視它，我才能信賴你。靠它的幫助，你才能用你自己的眼睛來觀察，用不著別人的眼。你才能靠自己的見識來求知，用不著鄰人的智識。把這個在你心裡細想，你該怎麼做。誠然，公義乃是我賜予你的天賦，是我仁愛慈惠的表徵。你要把它放在眼前。 

-巴哈歐拉

他(尋求真理者)當原諒罪人，絕不蔑視他們地位之低賤，因為沒有人能知道自己的結局為何。往往有的罪人，在臨終時，達到了對信仰真正本質的認識，暢飲了永生的靈泉，飛升到上天英靈之境！另一方面，有些原本虔誠的信徒，當他魂飛天界時，卻全然改變而墜入最底層的地獄！

-巴哈歐拉

在今日，每一個人的責任是去獲取上帝所傾注於他之鴻澤恩典的部分。因而，任何人都不要去比較和衡量容器之大小，因為有些人的容量可能只有一掌之握；有些人或有一杯滿，有些人甚至不可以斗量。

-巴哈歐拉