Notice the extent to which the friends have been required in
the Sacred Epistles and Tablets, as well as in our Beloved's Testament, to be
righteous, well-wishing, forbearing, sanctified, pure, detached from all else
save God, severed from the trappings of this world and adorned with the mantle
of a goodly character and godly attributes.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 19 December
1923 to the Bahá'ís of the East - translated from the
Persian; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Living the Life)
