Consider! The people of the East and the West were in the
utmost strangeness. Now to what a high degree they are acquainted with each
other and united together! How far are the inhabitants of Persia from the
remotest countries of America! And now observe how great has been the influence
of the heavenly power, for the distance of thousands of miles has become
identical with one step! How various nations that have had no relations or
similarity with each other are now united and agreed through this divine
potency! Indeed to God belongs power in the past and in the future! And verily
God is powerful over all things!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of the Divine Plan’)
