I asked ‘Abdu’l-Bahá one day: "Why should I believe in Bahá’u’lláh?" He looked
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I asked ‘Abdu’l-Bahá one day: "Why should I believe in Bahá’u’lláh?" He looked long and searchingly as it seemed into my very soul. The silence deepened. He did not answer. In that silence I had time to consider why I had asked the question, and dimly I began to see that only I myself could supply the reason. After all, why should I believe in anyone or anything except as a means, an incentive, a dynamic for the securing of a fuller, deeper, more perfect life?
Source: Howard Colby Ives, Portals to Freedom, p. 42
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