Servitude to God lieth in servitude to the friends. One must
be the essence of humility and the embodiment of meekness. One must become
evanescence itself and be healed of every disease of the self, in order to
become worthy of thraldom to the Threshold of the Almighty.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From
a Table; compilation: ‘Give Me Thy Grace to Serve Thy Loved Ones’, prepared by
the prepared by the International Teaching Centre for the Continental
Counsellors and their Auxiliaries, May 2018, online Baha’i Reference Library of
the World Center)