Before his sermon, Father spends more time praying for the members than praying for the sermon itself. Father prays with sincere investment: "Heavenly Father! What must I do to raise these people? Is it this or is it that?" and after that he gives the sermon as his mind directs. (9-81)

Father never wants to lose to anyone in depth of devotion. Also, regarding heart, I never want to be indebted but to give to others. From now on, a person in a responsible position must at least establish a heartistic condition concerning one's own responsibility. If not, the Unification Church cannot develop. (16-309)

When Father is in deep prayer, all members of the Unification Church fall in love with him with the result that even on their way to the grocery store they come and visit. That is the way it is. They tell others that they are going to the market place and they end up in the church. Whether man or woman, all are enchanted. Those things are not caused by me. Love makes it so. When they see me, they feel joyful without knowing why. They want to sell anything they have and bring something to me. They want to give, give and give again. What can cause such phenomenon? It is true love. Give, give and give again, and you continually come to possess new things to give. Do you understand? After giving in all directions, a place to sit down emerges. A high place emerges. (121-231)

How many members with longing, yearning hearts have you met? Father has met numerous such people. They visit from the end of the world to bow to father! Why is that? Because Father has already thrown the line of heartistic love to the end of world, and because he has already sent electricity through it so that they understand the direction. How small you were! You came expecting to hear praises from Father, do you? Have you come to hear praise or rebuke? You came to hear real explanations.

In order to pave this way, Father sat down and prayed until his cotton pants became so soaked that water was dripping. Father shed tears. Father prayed for seventeen hours, twenty hours, a day. Father lived such a life. Through such effort he found this way. Can you inherit this easily? The realm of harmonious heart has to be connected to one standard. Do heaven and earth play in different beat?

Therefore, you have lived without understanding the tradition of Unification Church. You have lived without knowing Unification Church. You have lived without understanding Father. Such worthless beings...

I am not a worthless person. I am a being who will only exist once in history. Can you meet me again? Do you think you can ever meet me in another time? Can you meet me again? [No, we cannot.] The fact that you have met me in this period is a most precious thing which cannot be traded even for the cosmos. However, haven't you treated this precious reality rashly? "What is he proposing and what is the way he is walking?" You should feel something about your given environment and the world, and also feel that even a flying bird signifies something for you. Your realm of heart should be such. Give the recognition of participatory value to everyone and be able to respond to each other as do you and I. By your having the content of harmonizing value, Heaven should be able to approve of you. Without going through the bond of heart, you cannot be publicly recognized. (171-32)

When you pray you must shed tears. When Father first began this path, in 1944, 1945, Father guided members at the Sangdo Dong church. At that time, the wooden floor of the prayer place in the church center never became dry. Do you understand what Father is saying? The wooden floor... You must shed tears. In such a situation, God was with that church night and day.

As you march on for the sake of God's Will, you should become immersed in lonely sadness several times a day without even realizing it, and you should be always connected to and reflect the heart of God. I came until this day with those things in mind. I do not know about you.

You can know at once whether or not God is with you if you think about it. There is such a thing. When someone talks to you and some meaningful words are spoken, then your mind is naturally pulled. It is natural for you to know these things.

Father does not know how many times he prayed until his cotton pants became all wet-how many times he pledged in his mind, going over the valley of death. (19-19)

Are you the owners of the Kingdom of Heaven? You should really wake up and pray. For three years the wooden floor never became dry, and even now father has the calluses from praying. God works only in the highest and most serious position, not like the working of the secular world. (1974. 2. 9)

In 1957, for the first time we selected 120 locations and went out witnessing. Until that time, Father prayed so hard in the prayer room, not sleeping even when night came. People from that time would know. I usually did not sleep until 2 a.m. and often not until 4 a.m. On the average I slept only two hours. Always I sincerely prayed and invested. Without doing that I could not lay the foundation. In order to lay the worldwide foundation and to place a cornerstone for the nation, I must be able to pray and invest so that many people will become my hands and feet. (56-50)