Garden
To one who visited in Haifa, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said substantially, in likening the Cause of God to a Garden: 'At the gate of the garden some stand and look within, but do not care to enter. Others step inside, behold its beauty, but do not penetrate far. Still others encircle this garden inhaling the fragrance of the flowers, having enjoyed its full beauty, pass out again by the same gate. But there are always some who enter and, becoming intoxicated with the splendor of what they behold, remain for life to tend the garden'."
- quote attributed to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá for Inez Greeven during her 1921 Pilgrimage, found in Frances Esty, The Garden of the Heart
Quote of the Day
Jamal 3 Ilm 183 B.E.
Many people whoso believe in God may be truthful and honest in a normal situation. But the real criterion of a man's truthfulness and honesty is his attitude at the time of temptation. When severe tests and trials descend upon man, the only thing which keeps him truthful is his faith in God. If he does not believe in God, there is no motivation within him to resist temptation.
Adib Taherzadeh – The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh v 2, p. 314