You should know how much God had endured. You complain and protest at little difficulties. How patient was God at those times? We need to be like him. We should endure thousands and millions of years. I'm not saying we shouldn't fight. Fight until both sides become good. We don't fight till one perishes. We fight to educate and to bring them to our side, not to make enemies, okay? [Yes.]

How much had God been enduring? How many sights He didn't like did he see and endure? How much He didn't want to hear, didn't want to say... From now on, make resolutions to yourself that you will endure all the curses from all people in order to fulfill God's love. Look at God and make resolutions to learn his endurance.

Then, why do we have to endure? It is to inherit God's love and to make it ours. Because we know that He is looking for someone like himself, we ought to learn his patience, okay? [Yes.] We need to learn God's patience. We need to be kings of patience. Because God was a king of patience, I too have to be the first kings of patience in history.

So, how much God would have endured? The enemy who killed his sons and daughters, killed the king of the world, and destroyed God's ideals is the ultimate enemy. God had endured an enemy like that. Do you want that too? [Yes.] Do you want that endurance or do you want love? [Love.] (laughter) You shouldn't desire only love. Without desiring endurance, you can't possess great love. You know it now? [Yes]

I'm persevering. My ear, forget all! My eyes, forget all! My heart, forget all! Persevere even though the heart aches! For whom? For God and mankind. It's God who is to be consoled, not me, however sad I am. Without doing this work, you can't even pray. You must know that this is the path the church and I had walked. Why? There is no other way. This is the shortest way.

Think about it, everyone. How persistent was Christianity. For four hundred years during Roman persecution, Christians went underground and suffered, but they struggled to overcome the circumstances. I can't help wondering if the Unification Church can survive in this world or not.

To remain in a welcomed place is not a problem. The problem is how to remain in a place where you are opposed and persecuted. A long time ago, I thought that we should be flexible enough to change our shapes or make our selves smaller when we are pressured.

If you look at it that way, I have been persecuted for thirty years but gone through it quite well. When hit once, I retreated... That's a strategic retreat. Again I go into it strategically. We should have inner determination to reach up even further whenever it's possible.

So, think about the seeds of trees and fruits. In this frigid zone, a pine tree from a tropical region wouldn't grow, but would die off. However if you grow the seed in tropical region and move it to the frigid region and back to the tropical region and so on, it will grow in any region. Therefore whichever the seed is, it shouldn't grow only in its proper climate. If it wants to grow in any place, it should either absorb all the elements of any different environment, or have the power to oppress them. Even if the Unification Church reaches a miserable end, we should say, "We work for a greater cause than any one else. We work for the world." Even if we die, this is how we should die. Is there any organization that died like that?

Right now, our Unification groups are moving for the whole world. In accomplishing God's will, if we endure and persevere, God's Will will be accomplished ultimately. Right? Even if I don't say it, there is a saying, "Luck will come after enduring and persevering."

In enduring and persevering, what is the 100 percent standard? The standard is to risk your neck. If you risk your neck and are dying, your mother and father will cry and say, "Why don't you live longer?," and your little siblings will say, "Why brother and sister, why die now?" and the whole family will be turbulent.

Most of the people in the world withdraw if they fail once, a second and a third time, but our Unification youths should have hearts to start again after several failures.

Wild boar hunting is fun. When first people depart toward a ridge, everyone tries to be at the front, but after a few ridges, they get tired and think, "It would be good enough just not to fall behind." Then if they get more exhausted, they think, "What if I take a short break?" and if they go a little more, they decide, "I can stop now...." This is when wild boars run away.

When you go fishing in the ocean, you feel as though you will catch every fish, but after you throw the net in the water a few times with all your might, the spirit disappears and it gets tedious.