Regarding your question about prayer and the fact that some of our problems are not solved through prayer, we must always realize that life brings to us many situations, some of which are tests sent from God to train our characters, some of which are accidental because we live in the world of nature and are subject to the accidents of death, disease, etc., and some of which we bring on ourselves by folly, selfishness or some other weak human trait.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 18 March 1951 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; included in a memorandum from the bReserach Department of the Universal House of Justice dated 5 September 2006; Baha’i Library Online)
