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
Istiqlal 14 Qawl 182 B.E.
It is my firm conviction which I now express with all sincerity and candor, that the dignity and unity of the Cause urgently demands -- particularly throughout the American continent -- that the friends should in their words and conduct emphasize and give absolute prominence to the constructive dynamic principles of Bahá’u’lláh, rather than attach undue importance to His negative Teachings.
Shoghi Effendi – Bahá’í Administration, p. 18