Severed from the no less essential institution of the Universal House of Justice this same System of the Will of ‘Abdu’l Bahá would be paralyzed in its action and would be powerless to fill in those gaps which the Author of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas has deliberately left in the body of His legislative and administrative ordinances.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah'; included in ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)