The divergence between the ways of the world and of the
Cause of God becomes ever wider. And yet the two must come together. The Bahá'í
community must demonstrate in ever-increasing measure its ability to redeem the
disorderliness, the lack of cohesion, the permissiveness, the godlessness of
modern society; the laws, the religious obligations, the observances of Bahá'í
life, Bahá'í moral principles and standards of dignity, decency and reverence,
must become deeply implanted in Bahá'í consciousness and increasingly inform
and characterize this community.
(The Universal House of Justice, from a letter
dated Ridvan 1972; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
