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Lights of Guidance by Helen Hornby XLIX. TESTS

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A. Tests

2037. Bahá’ís Often Each Other's Greatest Test

2038. Growing Pains Every Bahá’í Community Experiences

2039. Failures, Tests and Trials are Means of Purifying Our Spirits

2040. God Sometimes Causes Us to Suffer Much That We May Become Strong in His Cause

2041. A Man May Forget God While Happy

2042. Difficulties Are Means For the Spirit to Grow

2043. Is It Right to Tell Untruth to Save Another?

2044. No Comfort in This World—Some Under Pressure Commit Suicide

2045. We Can Turn Our Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stones

2046. Life Afflicts Us With Very Severe Trials Which We Must Accept Patiently

2047. Many Tests Are Due To Our Own Nature

2048. Only Through Suffering Can Nobility of Character Be Made Manifest—The Energy we Spend Enduring the Intolerance of Others is not Lost

2049. Suffering Seems to be Part of the Polish God Employs to Enable Us to Reflect More of His Attributes

2050. Sometimes Things Which Seem Difficult to Understand Have a Simple, Reasonable Explanation