O maid-servant of God! Know thou, the first bounty from the
True One is love, unity and harmony, and without these all the deeds pass in
vain and give no result. Love is the result of the Manifestation and the
glorious purpose of the rising of Light on the Mount, in the Sinai of the
Forgiving Lord.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 1’)