Tag: "God, Tests of"

tag name	God, Tests of	type:	Religion, general
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/God,_Tests_of
related tags	God; Tests and difficulties
notes	"My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it." – Bahá'u'lláh, The Hidden Words, Arabic #51 "While a man is happy he may forget his God; but when grief comes and sorrows overwhelm him, then will he remember his Father Who is in Heaven, and Who is able to deliver him from his humiliations. "Men who suffer not, attain no perfection. The plant most pruned by the gardeners is that one which, when the summer comes, will have the most beautiful blossoms and the most abundant fruit." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Paris Talks, talk 14, in Lights of Guidance, no. 2041 "... tests and trials are, for sanctified souls, but God’s bounty and grace, while to the weak, they are a calamity, unexpected and sudden. These tests... do but cleanse the spotting of self from off the mirror of the heart, till the Sun of Truth can cast its rays thereon; for there is no veil more obstructive than the self, and however tenuous that veil may be, at the last it will completely shut a person out, and deprive him of his portion of eternal grace..." – Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá, #155 "We must take the teachings as a great, balanced whole, not seek out and oppose to each other two strong statements that have different meanings; somewhere in between, there are links uniting the two. That is what makes our Faith so flexible and well balanced. For instance there are calamities for testing and for punishment--there are also accidents, plain cause and effect!" – From a letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, 19 March 1946, cited in Reconciliation of Apparent Contradictions in the Bahá'í Writings
references	bahai9.com/wiki/Tests; bahaiquotes.com/subject/tests-purpose-of; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Tests God

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