Friendship

It is incumbent upon everyone to show the utmost love, rectitude of conduct, straightforwardness and sincere kindliness unto all the peoples and kindreds of the world, be they friends or strangers.  So intense must be the spirit of love and loving kindness, that the stranger may find himself a friend, the enemy a true brother, no difference whatsoever existing between them.  For universality is of God and all limitations earthly.
                                                                                                           (`Abdu'l-Baha:  Will and Testament, Page: 13)

Consort with all the peoples, kindreds and religions of the world with the utmost truthfulness, uprightness, faithfulness, kindliness, good-will and friendliness, that all the world of being may be filled with the holy ecstasy of the grace of Baha, that ignorance, enmity, hate and rancor may vanish from the world and the darkness of estrangement amidst the peoples and kindreds of the world may give way to the Light of Unity.
                                                                                                           (`Abdu'l-Baha:  Will and Testament, Page: 14)

What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal?  Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless.

The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people talk only of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice.  If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort.

                                                                                                                                                 (`Abdu'l-Baha:  Paris Talks*, Page: 16)

In this day, the one favoured at the Threshold of the Lord is he who handeth round the cup of faithfulness; who bestoweth, even upon his enemies, the jewel of bounty, and lendeth, even to his fallen oppressor, a helping hand; it is he who will, even to the fiercest of his foes, be a loving friend.

                                                                                                                                                (`Abdu'l-Baha:  Selections ...   `Abdu'l-Baha, Page: 2)

Do not think the peace of the world an ideal impossible to attain!  Nothing is impossible to the Divine Benevolence of God.     If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.

                                                                                                                                                (`Abdu'l-Baha:  Paris Talks*, Pages: 29-30)