Pleasing and acceptable as is a person of righteous actions before God’s Holy Threshold, yet deeds should proceed from knowledge… The point is this, that faith compriseth both knowledge and the performance of good works.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá
From a Tablet of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá cited in Ruhi Book 7. The Spiritual Dynamics of Advancing on a Path of Service, Sec. 6