Iran again finds itself in the forefront of world events. After Islam, the largest religious minority in Iran is the Baha'i Faith-a religion born there in the mid-Nineteenth Century. According to many scholars of Iranian society and history, the Baha'is, in a century and a half, have proven to be a significant social and moral force capable of modernizing and democratizing that country-the cradle of one of the most remarkable civilizations in history. The followers of this religion which, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, is the second most widespread in the world after Christianity, number more than six million globally...

In Quotations for Manifesting Your Potential in the Baha'i Faith, author Nathan Thomas has compiled a collection of passages from the Baha'i Holy Writings and other sources to help introduce this new religion to the world as a message of spiritual development for all people. The book is a companion to Manifest Your Potential in the Baha'i Faith, How the Beliefs, Practices, and Vision of the Baha'i Faith Can Change Your Life, written by the same author. Through the use of quotations from the Central Figures of the Baha'i Faith, which include the Bab, Baha'u'llah, and 'Abdu'l-Baha, along with quotations from the Guardian and the Universal House of Justice and its agencies, Quotations for Manifesting Your Potential in the Baha'i Faith how the beliefs of this new world religion inspire a new understanding for reality, how the practices of this faith empower us to become more effective individuals in our spiritual and material lives, and how the vision of Baha'u'llah brings people together to transform the world around us into a heavenly kingdom for all mankind. In the process, the book provides a guide to how to approach the Baha'i Faith as a toolkit for realizing the greatness in all people.

This volume was compiled as a sequence of correlated passages that would be conducive to spiritual growth. The majority of the material presented in this compilation is comprised of passages from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, with one text from the Bab, some from 'Abdu'l-Baha, one passage from a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, and one ap- pendix from a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice.