He Who is the Day Spring 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....
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
