Look at the Gospel
of the Lord Christ and see how glorious it is! Yet even today men fail to
understand its priceless beauty, and misinterpret its words of wisdom.
Christ forbade war!
When the disciple Peter, thinking to defend his Lord, cut off the ear of the
servant of the High Priest, Christ said to him: ‘Put up thy sword into the
sheath’. Yet, in spite of the direct
command of the Lord they profess to serve—men still dispute, make war, and kill
one another, and His counsels and teaching seem quite forgotten.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, Paris, October 27, 1911; ‘Paris Talks’)
