Know thou that all the powers combined have not the power to establish
universal peace, nor to withstand the overmastering dominion, at every time and
season, of these endless wars. Ere long, however, shall the power of heaven,
the dominion of the Holy Spirit, hoist on the high summits the banners of love
and peace, and there above the castles of majesty and might shall those banners
wave in the rushing winds that blow out of the tender mercy of God.
(“Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá”, [rev. ed.] (Haifa:
Bahá’í World Centre, 1982), p. 174) [18]