It is like a wide embrace gathering all those who…

It is like a wide embrace gathering all those who have long searched for words of hope… Saddened by the continual strife amongst believers of many confessions and wearied of their intolerance towards each other, I discovered in the Bahá’í teaching the real spirit of Christ so often denied and misunderstood.

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qtd. in Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By (1944)

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