If a believer who did not like a particular law were to be permitted to leave the community to break the law, and then rejoin with impunity, this would make a mockery of the Law of God.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated May 15, 1967, to a National Spiritual Assembly; compilation: ‘Developing Distinctive Baha'i Communities’, prepared by US NSA, 1998 edition)