Love is the standard which must govern the conduct of one believer
towards another. The administrative order does not change this, but
unfortunately sometimes the friends confuse the two, and try to be a whole
spiritual assembly, — with the discipline and justice and impartiality that
body must show, — to each other, instead of being forgiving, loving and patient
to each other as individuals.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated March 18, 1950, written on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’)