January 1

At present people are too engulfed in hopes, events, desires, and various partizanships, to realise that there is no way out for humanity except to accept the Divine Plan for this Day, and put its healing principles and laws into practice. But gradually their eyes will be opened, and it is for this time that the friends must labour to bring the knowledge of the Cause before as wide a public as possible. 
- Shoghi Effendi  (From a letter dated 14 March 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; ‘Unfolding Destiny’)