Has not Bahá'u'lláh assured us that sufferings and privations are blessings in disguise, that through them our inner spiritual forces become stimulated, purified and ennobled? Remain, therefore, confident that your material hardships will, far from hindering your activities for the Cause, impart to your heart a powerful impetus to better serve and promote its interests.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 22 November 1936 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer; the Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Living the Life)
