The continual aim of
the institutions of the Bahá’í community—whether it be through the operation of
summer schools and training institutes, through the development of the Nineteen
Day Feasts and National Conventions, or through day-to-day interaction among
the friends—is to empower the individual believers so that they will learn how
to live their lives with increasing knowledge, wisdom, unity and fruitfulness
in conformity with the Teachings of Bahá’u’lláh.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 18 July
2000 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual
believer)