…today victory neither has been nor will ever be opposition
to any one, nor strife with any person; but rather what is well-pleasing is
that the cities of men’s hearts, which are under the dominion of the hosts of
selfishness and lust, should be subdued by the sword of wisdom and of
exhortation. Every one, then, who desires victory must first subdue the city of
his own heart with the sword of spiritual truth and of the Word, and must
protect it from remembering aught beside God; afterwards, let him turn his
efforts toward the citadel of the hearts of others.
- Baha’u’llah (From a
Tablet, Baha’i News no. 48, February 1931)
