…both the spirit and the form are essential to the safe and
speedy development of the Administration. To maintain full balance between them
is the main and unique responsibility of the administrators of the Cause.
- Shoghi Effendi (From
a letter dated December 10, 1933, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to NSA of
the United States and Canada; Baha’i News, no. 81, February 1934)