Bahá’í Quotes

Assemblies - Loving Parents

He indicated that a National Assembly should be like a loving parent, watching over and helping its children, and not like a stern judge, waiting for an opportunity to display his judicial powers.

- Shoghi Effendi, Lights of Guidance, p. 34

Quote of the Day

Idal 3 Kalimat 183 B.E.

The Bahá’ís are fully entitled to address criticisms to their assemblies; they can freely air their views about policies or individual members of elected bodies to the assembly, local or national, but then they must whole-heartedly accept the advice or decision of the assembly, according to the principles already laid down for such matters in Bahá’í administration.

Shoghi Effendi – Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, p. 55