I fully approve and wholeheartedly and unreservedly uphold
the principle to which you refer that personalities should not be made centers
around which the community may revolve but that they should be subordinated
under all conditions and however great their merits to the properly constituted
Assemblies. You and your co-workers can never over-estimate or over-emphasize
this cardinal principle of Bahá’í Administration. - Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated April 11, 1933; ‘Messages to America’)
