…men and women who, as time goes by, will increasingly
exemplify those essential virtues, of self-renunciation, of moral rectitude, of
chastity, of undiscriminating fellowship, of holy discipline, and of spiritual
insight that will fit them for the preponderating share they will have in
calling into being that World Order and that World Civilization of which their
country, no less than the entire human race, stands in desperate need."
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 25 December 1938, published as ‘The Advent
of Divine Justice’)
