O Lord, my God! O Thou the Most Lauded, the Most Holy, the Most Tender, the Most Bountiful! Remove our difficulties by Thy grace and bounty. Thou art, verily, the All-Merciful, the All-Bountiful.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh’; Baha’i Reference Library of the Baha’i World Center)
O God! Grant Washington happiness and peace! Illuminate that land with the light of the faces of the friends, make it a paradise of Glory, let it become an envy of the green gardens of the earth! Help the friends, increase their number, make their hearts sources of inspiration and their souls dawnings of light. Thus may that city become a beautiful paradise and fragrant with the fragrance of musk.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha ('Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baha', vol. 2)