The tests of every dispensation are in direct proportion to
the greatness of the Cause, and as heretofore such a manifest Covenant, written
by the Supreme Pen, hath not been entered upon, the tests are proportionately
severe. ... These agitations of the violators are no more than the foam of the
ocean, ... This foam of the ocean shall not endure and shall soon disperse and
vanish, while the ocean of the Covenant shall eternally surge and roar.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a
letter dated 7 December 1969; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice
1963-1986’)
