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

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Istiqlal 4 Izzat 183 B.E.

It should also be understood that a member may wish to absent himself from a meeting at which subjects in which he is personally involved are to be discussed. In such cases he may do so unless the Assembly requires him to be present.

Universal House of Justice – Lights of Guidance, p. 180