Regarding your question about the need for greater unity
among the friends there is no doubt that this is so, and the Guardian feels
that one of the chief instruments for promoting it is to teach the Bahá'ís
themselves, in classes and through precepts, that love of God, and consequently
of men, is the essential foundation of every religion, our own included. A
greater degree of love will produce a greater unity, because it enables people
to bear with each other, to be patient and forgiving.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 7
July 1944 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer quoted
in “Bahá'í News”, no. 173, February 1945, p. 3; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. III, Issues Concerning Community Functioning)
