O ye loved ones of the Lord! This is the hour when ye must
associate with all the earth's peoples in extreme kindliness and love, and be
to them the signs and tokens of God's great mercy. Ye must become the very soul
of the world, the living spirit in the body of the children of men.
- ‘Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu'l-Baha)