As the foremost aid to your reflections and actions [during
Holy Year 1992, commenced at Ridvan 1992], you will doubtless draw upon the
insight and inspiration of such of His words as these: "I am the Sun of
Wisdom and the Ocean of Knowledge. I cheer the faint and revive the dead. I am
the guiding Light that illumineth the way." "By My Life! Not of Mine
own volition have I revealed Myself, but God, of His own choosing, hath
manifested Me." "I have come in the shadows of the clouds of glory,
and am invested by God with invincible sovereignty." "He that hath Me
not is bereft of all things. Turn ye away from all that is on earth and seek
none else but Me." "Love Me, that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me
not, My love can in no wise reach thee. Know this, O servant." "The
Ancient Beauty hath consented to be bound with chains that mankind may be
released from its bondage, and hath accepted to be made a prisoner within this
most mighty Stronghold that the whole world may attain unto true liberty. He
hath drained to its dregs the cup of sorrow, that all the peoples of the earth
may attain unto abiding joy, and be filled with gladness."
(The Universal
House of Justice, message to the Baha’is of the World, Ridvan 1992; ‘A Wider
Horizon, Selected Letters 1983-1992’)
