"...It is actions that speak to the world and are the cause of the progress of humanity."

‘Abdu’l-Bahá receiving knighthood for relief
of distress and famine during the war, April 1920

"Let your actions cry aloud to the world...for it is actions that speak to the world and are the cause of the progress of humanity."

"Without action nothing in the material world can be accomplished, neither can words unaided advance a man in the spiritual Kingdom. It is not through lip-service only that the elect of God have attained to holiness, but by patient lives of active service they have brought light into the world."

"Therefore strive that your actions day by day may be beautiful prayers. Turn towards God, and seek always to do that which is right and noble. Enrich the poor, raise the fallen, comfort the sorrowful, bring healing to the sick, reassure the fearful, rescue the oppressed, bring hope to the hopeless, shelter the destitute!..."

"God, who sees all hearts, knows how far our lives are the fulfillment of our words."

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks

www.bahai.org/r/963943027

"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world."

Baháʼí Temple - Panama

"It is incumbent upon every man of insight and understanding to strive to translate that which hath been written into reality and action.…"

"That one indeed is a man who, today, dedicateth himself to the service of the entire human race."

"The Great Being saith: Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth. In another passage He hath proclaimed: It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."

Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings
www.bahai.org/r/696472436