We must always look ahead and seek to
accomplish in the future what we may have failed to do in the past. Failures,
tests, and trials, if we use them correctly, can become the means of purifying
our spirits, strengthening our characters, and enable us to rise to greater
heights of service.
(From a letter dated 14 December 1941 written on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol.
II, Living the Life)
