The first step in
the reconstruction of human society is for individuals to accept Baha'u'llah as
the Manifestation of God for this age and to begin to strive, as well as they
can, to follow His Teachings in their individual and in their communal lives.
Conversion is but the first step, yet it is the essential one. Without it no
amount of expertise or scientifically based knowledge will have a lasting
effect, because the fundamental motivating and sustaining power will be
lacking.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 21 August 1977 written on behalf of the Universal
House of Justice to an individual believer)
