“Regarding your question about the need for greater unity
among the friends, there is no doubt that this is so, and the
Guardian feels that one of the chief instruments for promoting
it is to teach the Bahá’ís themselves, in classes and through precepts,
that love of God, and consequently of men, is the essential
foundation of every religion, our own included. A greater
degree of love will produce a greater unity, because it enables
people to bear with each other, to be patient and forgiving.”