Materialism and spirituality have always kept pace together. Now materialism has gone ahead, the divine foundation is forgotten and is being left behind. Among the causes of this failure is that religious leaders have presented religion as if it were opposed to science and reason, and have promoted imitations. Therefore you must bring about a conformity of religion and science.
The appearance of the Manifestations of God is like the appearance of the spring season. Undoubtedly the spring season does not last permanently and eternally. Now we are hopeful that the divine springtime may again become the cause of refreshing the garden of the world of existence.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha; compilation: ‘Abdu’l-Baha in America’, by DR. Zia Baghdadi; Star of the West, vol. 19, no.2, May 1928)