If we are true Bahá’ís speech is not needed. Our actions
will help on the world, will spread civilization, will help the progress of science,
and cause the arts to develop. Without action nothing in the material world can
be accomplished, neither can words unaided advance a man in the spiritual
Kingdom. It is not through lip-service only that the elect of God have attained
to holiness, but by patient lives of active service they have brought light
into the world.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, 8 November 1911, Paris, ‘Paris
Talks’)
