O Lord my God!... I swear by Thy glory, O my Best-Beloved!
Whensoever I raise mine eyes to the heavens and witness their loftiness, I
recognize naught therein but the wondrous heights of Thy supreme power and
sovereign authority. And whensoever I turn my gaze towards Thine earth and
observe the potentialities wherewith it hath been endowed, I perceive naught
but the peerless signs of Thine immutable nature and abiding constancy. And
whensoever, O my God, I behold the sea and its waves, methinks I hear the
billowing ocean of Thy wealth and power. In the sun I discern naught but the
marvellous splendour of the light of Thy hallowed countenance and presence, and
in the wind I sense naught save the stirring breezes of Thy nearness and
reunion. In the trees I behold only the revelation of the fruits of Thy wisdom
and knowledge, and in their leaves I read but the pages of the books enshrining
the mysteries of all that hath been through Thy command or will be through Thy
power. - Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
