If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every
race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will
become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches
the minds of all men.
Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will
conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these
days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all;
‘Love is the breath of the Holy Spirit in the heart of Man’. Take courage! God
never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be
filled with the strenuous desire that tranquility and harmony may encircle all
this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal
brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha,
from a talk, Paris, October 21, 1911; ‘Paris Talks’)
