The wine of renunciation must needs be quaffed, the lofty
heights of detachment must needs be attained, and the meditation referred to in
the words "One hour's reflection is preferable to seventy years of pious
worship" must needs be observed, so that the secret of the wretched
behaviour of the people might be discovered, those people who, despite the love
and yearning for truth which they profess, curse the followers of Truth when
once He hath been made manifest.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitáb-i-Íqán’; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. I, The Importance of Deepening our Knowledge of the Faith)
