He was grieved to hear of some of the things you describe.
It shows great spiritual immaturity on the part of some of the Bahá’ís and an
astonishing lack of understanding and study of the teachings. To live up to our
Faith’s moral teachings is a task far harder than to live up to those noble
principles the Moral Re-Armament inculcates, fine and encompassing as they are!
Every other word of Bahá’u’lláh’s and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s writings is a preachment
on moral and ethical conduct; all else is the form, the chalice, into which the
pure spirit must be poured, without the spirit and the action which must
demonstrate it, it is a lifeless form.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 30 September 1949,
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, ‘Messages to Canada’)
