Consider how God has been good to man! He has given him understanding,
intelligence and sentiment so that he may exert these divine faculties in the
path of love and not in the way of harm. We must supplicate God that He may
confirm and assist us to become the embodiment of the perfections of man; not
to extinguish the torch lighted by the Hand of Majesty; not to stop the
downpouring of the Rain of Mercy; not to cut His green and verdant trees; not
to prevent the descent of heavenly blessings, but to become confirmed in such
wise as to adorn the realm of humanity, to illumine the East and the West, to
create means of the interdependence of man, to destroy the basis of war and to
become the cause of the affiliation of the hearts.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk,
November 24, 1911, Paris, France; Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 18, February 7,
1912)
