In this valley the
wayfarers stray and perish ere they attain their final abode. Gracious God! So
immense is this valley, so vast this city [the City of the Garden of
Wonderment] in the kingdom of creation,
that it seemeth to have neither beginning nor end. How great the blessedness of
him who completeth his journey therein and who traverseth, through the
assistance of God, the hallowed soil of this heavenly city, a city in which the
favoured ones of God and the pure in heart are overcome with wonder and awe.
And We say: “Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds.”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gems of
Divine Mysteries’)
