1. True Father Who Has Shown Us the Example

When I am about to go before an audience, I never step forward unless God appears there first. Why wouldn't I have anything to say before a large audience? I can stand before them even just to propagandize for our Unification Church. However, I go before them only after God appears there first. (33-14)

People want to have dominion over others, and do not like to be interfered with. They want to do as their heart moves them. If they make wrong moves, all will be ruined.

I do not know how you lead your lives, but whenever I stand on the pulpit, I feel like I am a defense lawyer. I become a defense lawyer not just for my generation, but one that can go down in history. I decide the fate of people, whether they become patriots or traitors. When I think about how one word can decide that fate on a forked road that leads one to become either a patriot or a traitor, I realize that if I were to make a wrong judgment, then I will become the enemy of all humanity. When I can speak in defense well, then I can become the teacher who has built the restored Kingdom of Heaven and a patriot in that position, and leave behind an illustrious name in history. Or, when we consider the question based on the ideological standard of the philosophy of law, then couldn't this position be seen as the place where one originating point for the completion of the responsibility can be created? I often have these feelings.

When I come before this place, I do not do so with great confidence. Those who stand here with confidence have gone very close to failure. You have to come forward with the mind-set, "God, please be with this body. Let it not be some famous individual who is with it, but God who is with it. Let it not be a man who governs over it but let God do so." Because the origin of the Fall was man's desire to govern himself, so it is the mission of the leaders of the Unification Church to guide until we reach the absolute realm where God can have dominion. I am the one who revealed this.

Whenever I step on the pulpit, I go forward with that kind of heart. When I am giving you directions, I have the same heart. As much as possible, I do not make decisions single-handedly. I do not tell you how I am like this and like that. It is God who must have the dominion. (46-90)

When you give the Principle lectures, your mouths have to become swollen and splintered. This is how it was with me. I was speaking on the night of New Years day, as well as yesterday, and whenever there is a meeting, I have to speak because I see everyone raising their heads. You might think that it is all right because I am the teacher, but I feel the stress. I feel how my tongue becomes desiccated. My mouth is also completely dry. Do you think drying up is all that happens? I feel my mouth contracting. You have to feel all this. When you go through this for the sake of others, it is an sacred thing. You have to understand such a sacred thing.

All of you know what a persimmon is, right? When you eat that, your tongue will pucker, won't it. The same thing happens when you speak. Blood tries to circulate, but it has become numb, and the tongue becomes just like that. The mouth feels as if it is going to explode. But I still keep on speaking. Have you ever eaten a persimmon? Sometimes, you experience convulsions. Your tongue will have convulsions. In extreme cases, you have to bite your tongue to let some blood out. Do you know that? That is how you can cure it. Do you understand what I am saying? Only having done that, can the mouth speak in front of God.

I keep standing like this and speaking for more than twelve hours. Without moving for nine or ten hours.... I stand and speak for a time long enough to travel back and forth twice to and from East Garden on a plane. When I entrust you with some mission, you have to put in this kind of effort.

Even if I speak until my head feels like it's going to split apart, I am not aware of it. At times, I have such a excruciating headache that it feels like it's going to break. Even under such pain I keep on speaking. Even then, I do everything. Do you understand what I am saying? Shouldn't you do even one tenth of that? If you have a conscience, shouldn't you do even a tenth of that? You are not to do it for me but for the sake of your nation. I want you to do it for your children and descendants, for your tribes and relatives.

I am always exhausted, always. Accordingly, I believe that for this God cannot but respect me. I should be respected for it. Our True Mother is suffering always from having born so many children so she has gone inside today. Even Mother feels that I am some kind of iron man. At times, when it is time to sleep, as I sit down to watch some television I often just Fall asleep. I am such an exhausted and suffering person. Yet, because even Mother has no one to share her painful heart with, so when she pleads with me, "Since my physical condition is like this, would you please give me a massage," I even give her a massage. (96-165)

When I am traveling in foreign nations, I exert my utmost. When I went to Japan, I spoke for seven, eight hours, and when you speak for that long, your legs start to feel numb and ache terribly. Legs start to suffer deep pain when the blood does not circulate. Because I am standing the whole time, my legs start to become numb like that. You probably don't know that feeling. You might think, "How can one's legs become numb when one is standing; that only happens when the blood does not circulate." When you stand like that, because all the blood concentrates down in the legs, you feel the numbness. However, the numbness in the leg is not a problem. I remind myself that my legs have the responsibility to carry the audience over the thirty-eighth parallel between heaven and earth. After carrying you over the line, for those of you who cross back over it, I will not be responsible. You have to leave better than when you came. It is the same as how Tarzan crosses over on a swinging rope. After swinging over you should step on the tree branch, but what happens when you cannot jump on it? When you fail to reach there you can't even go back to where you came from, so the only way is the way down, and you will Fall down to the caves of crocodiles. It is exactly the same as that. This is what I feel. (60-309)

When a lecturer goes somewhere to lecture and someone requests him to continue when he is about to finish, if he says, "Let's continue tomorrow," then this is not acceptable. I have never done that in my life. Even if I have been speaking for twenty four hours, even if the day dawns, I stop only when the person listening says, "Please, let's stop here." Even now, when I am with the wives of the 36 Blessed Couples, as the clock hits twelve, because they are sleepy they want me to leave. It is like that even now. (107-255)

When I lecture for a long time, some people feel such a desperate urge to go to the bathroom that they twist and move their bodies busily. After listening to the lecture for twelve or thirteen hours, because they do not want to miss the precious words, they ask me, "Teacher, please wait for a moment," and then go to the bathroom. Such things take place. What becomes of my dignity? Recently, I do not do such things. When I am busy I do that. Before a perfect subject, a perfect object will surely emerge.

So, until now, I have left behind the opposition. Moreover, God has guided me this way. Do you understand? The Unification Church is different from the way the world is. Even if the people of the world cut your head off and kill you, you cannot betray this path. Faith based on experience! Faith based on real life experience!

A person who has faith that is based on his experiences... You can hear that even in the holy songs... "Jesus, believing in Jesus one will receive many blessings and moving experiences....." You have to go through many heartfelt experiences of grace. Do you have many such experiences? Do you or not? You should pray. You should pray for Jesus. (68-112)

In Kyung-Gi province and Kang-Won province, I spoke until nine forty. Just as how when you are making a rice cake, the more it is cooked the better its aroma becomes, a speech is the same thing. (26-73)

When I was lecturing in the past, I spoke to just one person. Whispering in his ears, I was like a wind. In that one evening, that person turned around and began to communicate with the spirit world. Involuntarily, he would get up and talk while circling around and around. You should try it. If you are to become spiritually open in one night, wouldn't sin and Satan just run away from you; how can they still stick around? How can Satan remain when the thunder storm is about to strike the world? (167-331)

Heaven said that one should remain unchanging until the end. The question is how to not forget the heart that we felt when we stood on the stage of Carnegie Hall in New York. It is the most intense of all battles to feel to the bones a heart that exceeds that. Do you understand what this means? [Yes] We have done more than 100 lectures, about 160 lectures in the 50 states, but it is becoming increasingly difficult. Why is this so? It is because one's heart gets used to the situation. I found that it becomes a habit. I found that it is wrong to just rely on Heaven irresponsibly with the mentality, "I know all that already." (71-142)

Because I have to prepare for the lecture in the rally, I have to concentrate... Originally, if you had not come here, I would not have even made an appearance here, but because you came, I felt that I should meet with you to talk to you to make you better aware of the historical significance of the rally and prepare your hearts. I have to go to Chung Pyung or some such place to prepare my heart for tomorrow's event. (78-245)

Do you think I would have come to this country and lived a life of persecution without any plans and thoughts? I keep talking about the Principle. Whenever I have some time, I mumble and pray alone. I was able to do what I have done up to today because God is alive. It is the same for you. You should go do it. (107-255)

From now on, for the lecture meetings, you have to be prepared to inherit what I have been doing. Of course, in doing so we need a lot of men, but we should also have many lady lecturers. Although workshops based on lectures are needed for sure, from now on you should also always keep in mind the revival meeting type of workshops. (70-293)