July 17

We must build up our Bahá’í system, and leave the faulty systems of the world to go their own way. We cannot change them through becoming involved in them; on the contrary they will destroy us. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi published in Bahá’í News, No. 215, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter dated December 8, 1967 to an individual believer; ‘Wellspring of Guidance, Messages of the Universal House of Justice 1963-1968’)