...Every believer needs to remember that an essential
characteristic of this physical world is that we are constantly faced with
trials, tribulations, hardships and sufferings and that by overcoming them we
achieve our moral and spiritual development; that we must seek to accomplish in
the future what we may have failed to do in the past; that this is the way God
tests His servants and we should look upon every failure or shortcoming as an
opportunity to try again and to acquire a fuller consciousness of the Divine
Will and purpose.
(From a letter dated 9 January 1977 written on behalf of the
Universal House of Justice to an individual believer; compilation
‘Homosexuality’, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of
Justice)
