“By Him Who shineth above the Dayspring of sanctity!” He, [Bahá’u’lláh] still more emphatically, has revealed, “If the whole earth were to be converted into silver and gold, no man who can be said to have truly ascended into the heaven of faith and certitude would deign to regard it, much less to seize and keep it.…
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)