In contemplating the Master's divine example we may well
reflect that His life and deeds were not acted to a pattern of expediency, but
were the inevitable and spontaneous expression of His inner self. We, likewise,
shall act according to His example only as our inward spirits, growing and
maturing through the disciplines of prayer and practice of the Teachings,
become the wellsprings of all our attitudes and actions. This will promote the
accomplishment of God's purpose; this will ensure the triumph of His Faith and
enable us to build up the present motion of the Cause into a grand momentum
whose force will carry the community of the Most Great Name… onwards to the as
yet unapprehended vistas of the Most Great Peace.
- The Universal House of
Justice (Ridvan 1969)
