Once ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was asked, ‘Why do all the guests who visit you
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Once ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was asked, ‘Why do all the guests who visit you come away with shining countenances?’
‘He said with his beautiful smile: “I cannot tell you, but in all those upon whom I look, I see only my Father’s Face.”
Source: Honnold, Annamarie, Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 96
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