Events of the most profound significance are taking place in
the world. The river of human history is flowing at a bewildering speed.
Age-old institutions are collapsing. Traditional ways are being forgotten, and
newly born ideologies which were fondly expected to take their place, are
withering and decaying before the eyes of their disillusioned adherents. Amidst
this decay and disruption, assailed from every side by the turmoil of the age,
the Order of Bahá'u'lláh, unshakeably founded on the Word of God, protected by
the shield of the Covenant and assisted by the hosts of the Concourse on High,
is rising in every part of the world.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a
message dated 3 November 1980 to the Baha’is of the World; ‘Messages from the
Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
