O ye roses in the garden of God’s love! O ye bright lamps in
the assemblage of His knowledge! May the soft breathings of God pass over you,
may the Glory of God illumine the horizon of your hearts. Ye are the waves of
the deep sea of knowledge, ye are the massed armies on the plains of certitude,
ye are the stars in the skies of God’s compassion, ye are the stones that put
the people of perdition to flight, ye are clouds of divine pity over the
gardens of life, ye are the abundant grace of God’s oneness that is shed upon
the essences of all created things.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the
Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
