Religion is the outer expression of the divine reality.
Therefore, it must be living, vitalized, moving and progressive. If it be
without motion and nonprogressive, it is without the divine life; it is dead.
The divine institutes are continuously active and evolutionary; therefore, the
revelation of them must be progressive and continuous.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (From a
talk, 24 May 1912, Boston, Massachusetts; The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by 'Abdu'l-Bahá
during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912’)
