2 May | a.m

…whatever this Wronged One hath affirmed He hath had no intention of establishing any position or distinction for Himself. The purpose hath rather been to attract the souls, through the sublimity of His words, unto the summit of transcendent glory and to endow them with the capacity of perceiving that which will purge and purify the peoples of the world from the strife and dissension which religious differences provoke.

- Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 72

I swear by the Sun of Truth which hath shone forth from the highest horizons of the world that the people of Bahá had not and have not any aim save the prosperity and reformation of the world and the purifying of the nations.

- Bahá’u’lláh, Quoted by Abdu’l-Bahá, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 44