April 24

...Every believer needs to remember that an essential characteristic of this physical world is that we are constantly faced with trials, tribulations, hardships and sufferings and that by overcoming them we achieve our moral and spiritual development; that we must seek to accomplish in the future what we may have failed to do in the past; that this is the way God tests His servants and we should look upon every failure or shortcoming as an opportunity to try again and to acquire a fuller consciousness of the Divine Will and purpose. (From a letter dated 9 January 1977 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer; compilation ‘Homosexuality’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)