If, in the Day when all the peoples of the earth will be
gathered together, any man should, whilst standing in the presence of God, be
asked: “Wherefore hast thou disbelieved in My Beauty and turned away from My
Self,” and if such a man should reply and say: “Inasmuch as all men have erred,
and none hath been found willing to turn his face to the Truth, I, too,
following their example, have grievously failed to recognize the Beauty of the
Eternal,” such a plea will, assuredly, be rejected. For the faith of no man can
be conditioned by any one except himself.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)