The glorification of God does not consist in merely saying
that God is great. That is only verbal and there is no virtue in it. To glorify
God means that the reality deposited within the human temple, the reality which
is the image and likeness of God, shall become revealed through man. That
reality consists in the virtues and perfections of the human world. It consists
in the knowledge of all truth. When such lights become manifest from him, then
he has indeed glorified God. Otherwise, the glorification of God is only a
verbal ceremony.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, excerpt from a Talk at Theosophical
Society, San Francisco, October 11, 1912; Unpublished Manuscript by Ella
Cooper)
