War and rapine with their attendant cruelties are an abomination
to God, and bring their own punishment, for the God of love is also a God of
justice and each man must inevitably reap what he sows. Let us try to
understand the commands of the Most High and to order our lives as He directs.
True happiness depends on spiritual good and having the heart ever open to
receive the Divine Bounty.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, Paris, November 21,
1911; ‘Paris Talks’)
