Essential as the element of organization is in this
universal Cause, however, we must remember that living the life from day to day
and under all circumstances is our supreme privilege and sacred responsibility,
and it is only by the reinforcement of the Holy Spirit that any believer can be
of true usefulness to the Kingdom. Every Baha’i election or appointment must
ever be secondary to this inward spiritual trust borne equally by us all.
- Horace Holley (Message from the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States and Canada, Baha’i News, no. 6,
July-August 1925)