Baha’u’llah’s words to a Baha’i child

And yet heedless thou didst remain, and when fully grown, thou didst neglect all My bounties and occupied thyself with thine idle imaginings, in such wise that thou didst become wholly forgetful, and, turning away from the portals of the Friend, didst abide within the courts of My enemy.

(‘Abdu’l-Baha Compilation, p. 14 (UK and USA))