[The Covenant] …an institution which protects the Cause from
individuals who, through the assertion of their own wills, would try to
force God's Cause into the paths of their own preference and thus divide the
faithful and subvert the world-wide establishment of divine justice.
- The
Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated March 23, 1975 to an individual
believer; printed in ‘The Power of Covenant, Part Two’, by the NSA of Canada)