... Do not feel discouraged if your labours do not always
yield an abundant fruitage. For a quick and rapidly won success is not always
the best and the most lasting. The harder you strive to attain your goal, the
greater will be the confirmations of Baha’u’llah, and the more certain you can
feel to attain success. Be cheerful, therefore, and exert yourself with full
faith and confidence. For Baha'u'llah has promised His Divine assistance to
everyone who arises with a pure and detached heart to spread His holy Word,
even though he may be bereft of every human knowledge and capacity, and
notwithstanding the forces of darkness and of opposition which may be arrayed against
him. The goal is clear, the path safe and certain, and the assurances of Baha’u’llah
as to the eventual success of our efforts quite emphatic. Let us keep firm, and
whole-heartedly carry on the great work which He has entrusted into our hands.
(From
a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer,
February 3, 1937; compilation: Lights of Guidance)
