Nov 28, 2017

Prayer feeds the soul of a person

It is the soul of man that has first to be fed. And this spiritual nourishment prayer can best provide. Laws and institutions, as viewed by Bahá'u'lláh, can become really effective only when our inner spiritual life has been perfected and transformed. 
- Shoghi Effendi  (From a letter dated 4 January 1936 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, The Compilation of Compilations, Vol. II, The Importance of Prayer, Meditation and the Devotional Attitude)