What every believer, new or old, should realize is that the
Cause has the spiritual power to re-create us if we make the effort to let that
power influence us, and greatest help in this respect is prayer. We must
supplicate Baha’u’llah to assist us to overcome the failings in our own
characters, and also exert our own will-power in mastering ourselves. - Shoghi
Effendi (From a letter written on behalf
of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer dated 27 January, 1945; ‘The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, Excellence in All Things’)
