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)