The Station of the Guardian compared to the exalted station of ‘Abdu’l-Baha

As I have already stated, in the course of my references to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s station, however great the gulf that separates Him from the Author of a Divine Revelation it can never measure with the distance that stands between Him Who is the Center of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant and the Guardians who are its chosen ministers. There is a far, far greater distance separating the Guardian from the Center of the Covenant than there is between the Center of the Covenant and its Author.

- Shoghi Effendi  (From a letter dated February 8, 1934; ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)