As to a chaste and holy life it should be regarded as no
less essential a factor that must contribute its proper share to the
strengthening and vitalization of the Bahá'í community, upon which must in turn
depend the success of any Bahá'í plan or enterprise.... All of them, be they
men or women, must, at this threatening hour when the lights of religion are
fading out, and its restraints are one by one being abolished, pause to examine
themselves, scrutinize their conduct, and with characteristic resolution arise
to purge the life of their community of every trace of moral laxity that might
stain the name, or impair the integrity, of so holy and precious a Faith. (
- Shoghi
Effendi (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol.
I, A Chase and Holy Life)
