Unity is love. It cannot be established without love.
Therefore try, as far as possible, to be filled with love. Love is perpetual
life, the most perfect vitality. Consider how love has gathered us together
from the East and the West! If there were no love between us our friendship
would have been concluded with salutations, such as “Good morning” and
"Good evening." Love draws us in friendship to the people of every
race and religion. He is a Baha’i, of the people of Baha, from whom we breathe the
fragrance of this love again. …
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha quoted in ‘Fortnightly
Review’, June, 1911; Star of the West, vol. VIII, no. 9, August 20, 1917)