Having created the world and all that liveth and moveth
therein, He, [God] through the direct operation of His unconstrained and
sovereign Will, chose to confer upon man the unique distinction and capacity to
know Him and to love Him - a capacity that must needs be regarded as the
generating impulse and the primary purpose underlying the whole of creation...
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
