The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912, revised edition (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995), page 326.

St. John 1.10.

Gleanings, section CVI.

Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989).

Qur’án, surih 21, verse 104.

Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 5.

The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, paragraph 174.

Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, page 204.

Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, page 192.

Gleanings, section CVI.