Today the friends of God must appear in such wise among
God’s servants that by their actions they may lead all unto the pleasure of the
Lord of Glory. I swear by the Sun of the Horizon of Holiness that the friends
of God never have regarded nor will regard the earth or its transitory riches.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet, Baha’i News no. 48, February 1931)