It seems both strange and pitiful that the Church and clergy
should always, in every age, be the most bitter opponents of the very Truth
they are continually admonishing their followers to be prepared to receive!
They have become so violently attached to the form that the substance itself
eludes them!
However, such denunciations as those your minister made
publicly against you and the Bahá'í Faith can do no harm to the Cause at all;
on the contrary they only serve to spread its name abroad and mark it as an
independent religion.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 7 February 1945 written on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol.
II, Opposition)
