Religions change and alter

...If religions did not change and alter, there would be no need of renewal. In the beginning the tree was in all its beauty, and full of blossoms and fruits, but at last it became old and entirely fruitless, and it withered and decayed. This is why the True Gardener plants again an incomparable young tree of the same kind and species, which grows and develops day by day, and spreads a wide shadow in the divine garden, and yields admirable fruit. So it is with religions; through the passing of time they change from their original foundation, the truth of the Religion of God entirely departs, and the spirit of it does not stay; heresies appear, and it becomes a body without a soul. That is why it is renewed.

'Abdu'l Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 166

Thinking globally

... [the Bahá'í community] is a single social organism, representative of the diversity of the human family, conducting its affairs through a system of commonly accepted consultative principles, and cherishing equally all the great outpourings of divine guidance in human history. Its existence is yet another convincing proof of the practicality of its Founder's vision of a united world, another evidence that humanity can live as one global society, equal to whatever challenges its coming of age may entail. If the Bahá'í experience can contribute in whatever measure to reinforcing hope in the unity of the human race, we are happy to offer it as model for study.

Universal House of Justice, The Promise of World Peace - A Statement to the Peoples of the World, October 1985


Read The Promise of World Peace in its entirety or download a copy as a pdf file.

The missing link

It has been brought to my attention that the link below for the Bahá'í Date software is broken or unavailable. Apologies for this, but the good news is that the software is now available through a new link. You can now download it here.

Baha'i Date software

Install Baha'i Date and you can have the correct Baha'i date ready on your desktop at a moments notice. Also have the accurate location of Bahji from anywhere on the globe as an added feature.

Download the software here

True Bahá'í by definition

He is a true Bahá'í who strives by day and by night to progress and advance along the path of human endeavour, whose most cherished desire is so to live and act as to enrich and illuminate the world, whose source of inspiration is the essence of divine virtue, whose aim in life is so to conduct himself as to be the cause of infinite progress. Only when he attains unto such perfect gifts can it be said of him that he is a true Bahá'í. For in this holy Dispensation, the crowning glory of bygone ages and cycles, true faith is no mere acknowledgement of the unity of God, but rather the living of a life that will manifest all the perfections and virtues implied in such belief.

'Abdu'l Bahá, translated by Shoghi Effendi and published in The Bahá'í World, vol. 2, "1925-1928"
The Compilation of Compilations vol II, p. 346)