If we refuse His invitation, we shall not hinder the work from going on, for what God wills shall surely come to pass.

If we fail to play our part He can raise up other instruments to perform His purpose; but we shall miss the real aim and object of our own lives.

At-one-ment with God--becoming His lovers, His servants, the willing channels and mediums of His Creative Power, so that we are conscious of no life within us but His Divine and abundant life--that, according to the Baha'i teaching, is the ineffable and glorious consummation of human existence.
Humanity, however, is sound at heart, for it is made "in the image and likeness of God," and when at last it sees the truth, it will not persist in the paths of folly.

Baha'u'llah assures us that erelong the call of God will be generally accepted, and mankind as a whole will turn to righteousness and obedience.

"All sorrow will then be turned into joy, and all disease into health," and the kingdoms of this world shall become "the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever" (Rev.xi, 15).