Centuries, nay ages, must pass away ere the Day-Star of
Truth shineth again in its mid-summer splendor, or appeareth once more in the
radiance of its vernal glory... How thankful must we be for having been made in
this Day the recipients of so overwhelming a favor! Would that we had ten
thousand lives that we might lay them down in thanksgiving for so rare a privilege,
so high an attainment, so priceless a bounty!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated
February 8, 1934; ‘The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah’)
