…in the way of exalting the Word of God there are tests and
trials, and in His love there are at all times calamities and afflictions and
sufferings. Therefore, it behooveth one to first ponder over these calamities
and wistfully accept them, then undertake to spread the fragrances of God and
exalt His Word. At that time, whatever may befall him in the love of God, of
reproach, persecution, reviling, abuse, insult, beating, imprisonment or
assassination, will not offend him; rather it will augment his attraction to
the Beauty of God. - ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, vol. 2)
