“His life and deeds were… the inevitable and spontaneous expression of His inner self.”

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. 

- The Universal House of Justice  (From Ridvan message 1969; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963 to 1986’)