Tag: "Crisis and victory"

tag name	Crisis and victory	type:	Miscellaneous
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Crisis_and_victory
related tags	- Concepts; - Persecution; Opposition
referring tags	Crisis; Victory
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "... Let not, however, [the Bahá'í community] be afraid of any criticism that might be directed against it. Let it not be deterred by any condemnation with which the tongue of the slanderer may seek to debase its motives. Let it not recoil before the threatening advance of the forces of fanaticism, of orthodoxy, of corruption, and of prejudice that may be leagued against it. The voice of criticism is a voice that indirectly reinforces the proclamation of its Cause. Unpopularity but serves to throw into greater relief the contrast between it and its adversaries, while ostracism is itself the magnetic power that must eventually win over to its camp the most vociferous and inveterate amongst its foes…" – Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice (1938), p. 42; cited in compilation Crisis and Victory, no. 23 "Nor will it be my intention to ignore, whilst surveying the panorama which the revolution of a hundred years spreads before our gaze, the swift interweaving of seeming reverses with evident victories, out of which the hand of an inscrutable Providence has chosen to form the pattern of the Faith from its earliest days, or to minimize those disasters that have so often proved themselves to be the prelude to fresh triumphs which have, in turn, stimulated its growth and consolidated its past achievements. Indeed, the history of the first hundred years of its evolution resolves itself into a series of internal and external crises, of varying severity, devastating in their immediate effects, but each mysteriously releasing a corresponding measure of divine power, lending thereby a fresh impulse to its unfoldment, this further unfoldment engendering in its turn a still graver calamity, followed by a still more liberal effusion of celestial grace enabling its upholders to accelerate still further its march and win in its service still more compelling victories." – Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By (1944), p. xiii
references	bahaipedia.org/History#The_alternation_of_crisis_and_victory; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Crisis victory

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