Ultimately all the battle of life is within the individual.
No amount of organization can solve the inner problems or produce or prevent,
as the case may be, victory or failure at a crucial moment. In such times as
these particularly, individuals are torn by great forces at large in the world,
and we see some weak ones suddenly become miraculously strong, and strong ones
fail--we can only try, through loving advice, as your Committee has done, to
bring about the act on the part of the believer which will be for the highest
good of the Cause. Because obviously something bad for the Cause cannot be the
highest good of the individual Bahá'í.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 17 December 1943
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; The Compilation
of Compilations, vol. II, Living the Life)
