STRIVE TO ATTAIN THE SHORES OF THIS OCEAN 1...
He Who is the Dayspring of Truth is,
no doubt, fully capable of rescuing from such remoteness wayward souls and of causing them to draw nigh unto
His court and attain His Presence.
“If God had pleased He had surely made all men one people.” His purpose, however, is to enable the pure in spirit and the detached in heart to ascend,
by virtue of their own innate powers,
unto the shores of the Most Great Ocean,
that thereby they who seek the
Beauty of the All-Glorious may be
distinguished and separated
from the wayward and perverse.
Thus hath it been ordained by the
all-glorious and resplendent Pen.…
—Bahá’u’lláh
STRIVE TO ATTAIN THE SHORES OF THIS OCEAN 1...
He Who is the Dayspring of Truth is,
no doubt, fully capable of rescuing from such remoteness wayward souls and of causing them to draw nigh unto
His court and attain His Presence.
“If God had pleased He had surely made all men one people.” His purpose, however, is to enable the pure in spirit and the detached in heart to ascend,
by virtue of their own innate powers,
unto the shores of the Most Great Ocean,
that thereby they who seek the
Beauty of the All-Glorious may be
distinguished and separated
from the wayward and perverse.
Thus hath it been ordained by the
all-glorious and resplendent Pen.…
—Bahá’u’lláh