One day He said to me:
“The child does not realize the love of the parent, but when it becomes mature, it knows.”
“Can the creature,” I asked, “ever realize the love of the Creator
“Yes, if not in this world, then in the next -- as a sleeping one awakens.”
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted by Juliet Thompson, Star of the West, vol. II, no.14, November 1911)