We Baha’is are indeed most blessed in that we know that, however dark the days immediately ahead of the human race, the future is blessed and glorious. It is for this future that the believers must labour day and night, heedless of the state of the world and the dangers threatening.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated 23 February 1942, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi; ‘Dawn of a New Day’)