These are momentous times. The institutions of the old world
order are crumbling and in disarray. Materialism, greed, corruption and
conflict are infecting the social order with a grave malaise from which it is
helpless to extricate itself. With every passing day it becomes more and more
evident that no time must be lost in applying the remedy prescribed by
Baha'u'llah, and it is to this task that Baha'is everywhere must bend their
energies and commit their resources.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a
message to the International Conference in Canberra, Australia, 2, September
1982; ‘Messages from the Universal House of justice 1963-1986’)
