Souls are liable to estrangement. Such methods should be
adopted that the estrangement should be first removed, then the Word will have
effect. If one of the believers be kind to one of the negligent ones and with
perfect love should gradually make him understand the reality of the Cause of
God in such a way that the latter should know in what manner the Religion of
God hath been founded and what its object is, doubtless he will become changed;
excepting abnormal souls who are reduced to the state of ashes and whose hearts
are like stones, yea, even harder.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of Abdul-Baha
Abbas’, vol. 2)
