Context
We must never take one sentence in the Teachings and isolate it from the rest.
- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 512
We cannot help noticing, however, that achievements tend to be more enduring in those regions where the friends strive to understand the totality of the vision conveyed in the messages, while difficulties often arise when phrases and sentences are taken out of context and viewed as isolated fragments.
- Universal House of Justice, Letter to the Counsellors, 28 December 2010, p. 18
Quote of the Day
Jamal 7 Qudrat 182 B.E.
Lechery is clearly forbidden by Bahá’u’lláh (See Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 49) and Shoghi Effendi has stated that a 'chaste and holy life', according to the teachings of the Faith, implies a condemnation of 'all manner' of 'sexual vices'. (See Advent of Divine Justice, p. 25)
From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer – 5 June, 1983