Now that you have opened your heart to the light of Divine
Truth, and have not resisted the flow of Divine grace into it, you should
consider it your duty to also endeavour consciously and persistently to
investigate the Teachings, so that your mind also may comprehend them. Personal
effort is indeed a vital prerequisite to the recognition and acceptance of the
Cause of God. No matter how strong the measure of Divine grace, unless supplemented
by personal, sustained and intelligent effort it cannot become fully effective
and be of any real and abiding advantage.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 27 February 1938
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; ‘Messages to
Canada’)
