Feb 12, 2014

forgiveness

...There is a tendency to mix up the functions of the Administration and try to apply it in individual relationships, which is abortive, because the Assembly is a nascent House of Justice and is supposed to administer, according to the Teachings, the affairs of the community. But individuals toward each other are governed by love, unity, forgiveness and a sin-covering eye. Once the friends grasp this they will get along much better, but they keep playing Spiritual Assembly to each other and expect the Assembly to behave like an individual.... 
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effenfi to an individual believer; ‘Lights of Guidance: A Baha'i Reference File’)