The divergence between the ways of the world and of the
Cause of God becomes ever wider. And yet the two must come together. The Bahá'í
community must demonstrate in ever- increasing measure its ability to redeem
the disorderliness, the lack of cohesion, the permissiveness, the godlessness
of modern society; the laws, the religious obligations, the observances of
Bahá'í life, Bahá'í moral principles and standards of dignity, decency and
reverence, must become deeply implanted in Bahá'í consciousness and
increasingly inform and characterize this community.
(The Universal House of
Justice, from a letter dated Ridvan 1972; ‘Messages from the Universal House of
Justice 1963-1986’)
