If sorrow and adversity visit us, let us turn our faces to
the Kingdom and heavenly consolation will be outpoured. If we are sick and in
distress let us implore God’s healing, and He will answer our prayer.
When our thoughts are filled with the bitterness of this
world, let us turn our eyes to the sweetness of God’s compassion and He will
send us heavenly calm! If we are imprisoned in the material world, our spirit
can soar into the Heavens and we shall be free indeed!
When our days are drawing to a close let us think of the
eternal worlds, and we shall be full of joy!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From
a talk, 22 November 1911, Paris; ‘Paris Talks’)
