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Peace

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  • Various

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  • Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, August 1985
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  • 40
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46: By what process, continued the questioner, will this peace on earth be…
By what process, continued the questioner, will this peace on earth be established? Will it come at once after a universal declaration of the Truth?
No, it will come about gradually, said ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. A plant that grows too quickly lasts but a short time. You are my family, and he looked about with a smile, my new children! if a family lives in unison, great results are obtained. Widen the circle; when a city lives in intimate accord greater results will follow, and a continent that is fully united will likewise unite all other continents. Then will be the time of the greatest results, for all the inhabitants of the earth belong to one native land.
(“‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London: Addresses, and Notes of Conversations”, Commemorative ed. (London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1987), p. 106) [46]
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