We have forbidden men to walk after the imaginations of
their hearts, that they may be enabled to recognize Him Who is the sovereign
Source and Object of all knowledge, and may acknowledge whatsoever He may be
pleased to reveal. Witness how they have entangled themselves with their idle
fancies and vain imaginations. By My life! They are themselves the victims of
what their own hearts have devised, and yet they perceive it not. Vain and
profitless is the talk of their lips, and yet they understand not.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
