[Emphasis added in the quotations below.]
A January 2013 Facebook posting, accompanying a song with
similar but different wording, attributes to Abdu’l-Baha the words: “Where there is love there is always time.”
This appealing statement appears to be a permutation of a
passage from Howard Colby Ives, referring to Abdu’l-Baha, that can be found
excerpted in Volume 25 of “Star of the West” and that was published in a wonderful
book in 1937:
| Howard Colby Ives |
"Nothing is too much trouble when one loves," He had been
heard to say, "and there is always
time."
(Howard Colby Ives, Portals to
Freedom, p. 52)
Ives, in turn, appears to be paraphrasing these words from a
diary of historic pilgrim’s notes (we don’t know who the translator of Abdu’l-Baha’s
words was):
‘When we deprecated the trouble it
must be to answer so many questions and to give us so much time, He replied, "Whatever is done in love is never any
trouble, and -- there is always time."’
(Helen S. Goodall and Ella Goodall
Cooper, Daily Lessons Received at 'Akká January 1908, p. 42)
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| Ella Goodall Cooper |
