Love for God, Who verily sends His blessing upon us, liberates the soul from extraneous pressure. The one imperative is to preserve this loving tie with God. We shall not care what people think of us, or how they treat us. We shall cease to be afraid of falling out of favor. We shall love our fellow men without thought of whether they love us. Christ gave us the commandment to love other but did not make it a condition of salvation that they should love us. Indeed, we may positively be disliked for independence of spirit.
It is essential in these days to be able to protect ourselves from the influence of those with whom we come in contact. Otherwise we risk losing both faith and prayer. Let the whole world dismiss us as unworthy of attention, trust or respect – it will not matter provided that the Lord accepts us. And vice versa: it will profit us nothing if the whole world thinks well of us and sings our praises, if the Lord declines to abide with us.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Semto Mechal 
This is well displayed in the movie
“God is not Dead 2”
Powerful message. May God have Mercy on all is us.
This was taken from a book called ‘His life is mine’ by Archimandrite Sophrony first published in 1977. He spent 22 years on Mount Athos, first as a monk and for the final 7 years as a hermit in the desert. He discovered that man can only know God through prayer. I highly recommend the book.