Gracious God! Although people see with their own eyes that
in the dispensation of Christ the eleven disciples were ordinary men who,
because of their faith in Him, found eternal life and shone from the horizon of
perpetual honor; and that the Jews, with all their worldly honor, became
contemptible; and that Caiaphas, the greatest enemy of Christ, was, together
with his whole family, obliterated from the face of the earth while a simple
fisherman, because of his belief in Christ, became the great Peter, yet,
despite all this, still they take no heed.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Words of
‘Abdu’l-Baha, November 16, New York, recorded by Mahmud Zarqani; ‘Mahmud’s
Diary’)
