"The teaching of the Administration is ... an indispensable feature of every Bahái Summer School and its special significance can be better understood if we realize the great need of every believer today for a more adequate understanding of the social principles and laws of the Faith."
(Written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, Centers of Bahái Learning, p.8)
It is a vital and urgent duty of the Assemblies, both national and local, not only to apply the Laws of Bahá'í with justice and firmness, but to increase the believers' understanding of and devotion to these Laws. In this way they will obey them not through fear of punishment but out of love for Baháullah and because their whole lives have been transformed and reoriented in the Way of God.
(Universal House of Justice, Lights of Guidance, p. 343)
The youthful Bahái community of the United States is seeking its moral birthright as the laws of Baháullah replace the usual Judeo-Christian background of the members.... full understanding of the meaning and implications of the laws surrounding marriage and the family is imperative.... Local spiritual assemblies will grow to new maturity as they become true educators of the Bahái community, as they help to solve the personal problems of their members, and as they with justice ... protect and validate the Bahái law.
(NSA of the US, Annual Reports 1963-64, p. 7)
