...what Bahá'u'lláh has done for us all is to provide a standard by which to determine what is pleasing in God's sight, thereby freeing us to maintain those elements of diversity which are unique to our different cultures. The adoption of this divine standard enables each people to be confident in the permissibility of what it can retain from its past.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 23 June 1995, written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Cultural Diversity in the Age of Maturity)
