8 April | a.m

The purpose of God in creating man hath been, and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence.

- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 70

Although a person of good deeds is acceptable at the Threshold of the Almighty, yet it is first "to know," and then "to do."

- Abdu’l-Bahá, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu’l-Bahá Section, p. 382