Bahá’í Quotes

Stepping Stones

We Bahá’ís can always, with the aid of Bahá’u’lláh, Who, is ever ready to strengthen and assist us, turn our stumbling blocks into stepping stones, and utilize the often violent forces released by sincere but perhaps misguided friends, as a positive stream of power by turning them into productive channels instead of destructive ones.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 602-603

They have won outstanding and historic victories for the Faith, but the thing that pleases him most is that each victory that is won has been used as a stepping stone to further service in the Cause of God.

- Shoghi Effendi, High Endeavours - Messages to Alaska, p. 44

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Jamal 16 Qawl 182 B.E.

An Assembly must protect the Faith and neither blindly accuse nor blindly defend one of its members....

Shoghi Effendi – The Compilation of Compilations vol II, p. 51