Desiring to establish love, unity and harmony amidst Our servants, We have conditioned it[marriage], once the couple's wish is known, upon the permission of their parents, lest enmity and rancour should arise amongst them. And in this We have yet other purposes. Thus hath Our commandment been ordained.
- Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 42
Marriages are supposed, as Bahá’u’lláh says, Himself, to promote unity and harmony in the world, and not dissension an alienation…. In order to live up to the Bahá'í Laws for the new age we are entering upon, we have to make sacrifices. If the Bahá'í themselves will not sacrifice for their Faith, who will? It may often be difficult, but the results will be seen in a more rapid spread of the Cause and a greater unity amongst the Community itself."
- From a letter written in behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, March 21, 1953
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