He hopes that you will develop into Bahá'ís in character as
well as in belief. The whole purpose of Bahá'u'lláh is that we should become a
new kind of people, people who are upright, kind, intelligent, truthful, and
honest and who live according to His great laws laid down for this new epoch in
man's development. To call ourselves Bahá'ís is not enough, our inmost being
must become ennobled and enlightened through living a Bahá'í life...
(From a
letter dated 25 August 1944 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an
individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Youth)
