Quote collection
58 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God."
"There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points."
"Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm."
"Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek."
"I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war."
"I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God."
"Anyone can keep going in an easy situation, but do you have a philosophy which can enable you to meet the worst hardship?"
"My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow."
"Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God."
"We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God."
"I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism."
"If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?"
"The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N."
"If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world."
"Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering."
"God's dream still remains unfulfilled. It was not fulfilled 2,000 years ago, or in the home of any religious leader or any American home, and today the Unification Church is here to pledge to fulfill that dream. We don't want to confine that fulfillment to our Church, but to expand it all over the world. Wouldn't that be the Kingdom of God on earth?"
"I am not anyone's enemy."
"Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment."