The Heart That Speaks
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The Master made it quite clear that people of very different capacities were qualified to teach this great Faith, each in his own way. John David Bosch, who had come to America from Switzerland, felt that he could not be a speaker—instead he circulated pamphlets and books. The Master encouraged him: “You are doing very well; you are doing better than talking. With you it is not words or the movement of the lips; with you it is the heart that speaks. In your presence silence speaks and radiates.”
Source: Vignettes from the Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Annamarie Honnold), no. 28, “The heart may speak better than words”, pp. 59–60.
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