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March 6, 2019

Drawing nearer to God

Man must be ever thinking of drawing nearer to God…

- 'Abdu'l-Baha (From a talk given by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in Paris, France, October 17, 1911; Star of the West, vol. II, no. 6)

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