Administrative efficiency and order should always be
accompanied by an equal degree of love, of devotion and of spiritual
development. Both of them are essential and to attempt to dissociate one from
the other is to deaden the body of the Cause. In these days, when the Faith is
still in its infancy, great care must be taken lest mere administrative routine
stifles the spirit which must feed the body of the Administration itself. That
spirit is its propelling force and the motivating power of its very life.
- 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)
