Let all your striving be for this, to become the source of
life and immortality, and peace and comfort and joy, to every human soul,
whether one known to you or a stranger, one opposed to you or on your side.
Look ye not upon the purity or impurity of his nature: look ye upon the
all-embracing mercy of the Lord, the light of Whose grace hath embosomed the
whole earth and all who dwell thereon, and in the plenitude of Whose bounty are
immersed both the wise and the ignorant. Stranger and friend alike are seated
at the table of His favour. Even as the believer, the denier who turneth away
from God doth at the same time cup his hands and drink from the sea of His
bestowals.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
