Although there are many parents in the world, one's own parents are related to one absolutely. This is a fact. You cannot change that fact even in exchange for the whole of humankind, can you? Can you change it in exchange for God; Not even for God; and God cannot change it either. (74-18)

So, from what do you judge the parent-child relationship? We judge it from the blood lineage. Today Christianity vaguely calls, "Heavenly Father." Why do they say God the father instead of God the master? Within the word "father," love and blood lineage exist. Isn't that true? To become a direct descendant, you must be one in love. Become one through lineage. Blood contains life. Isn't that so? You carry life that continues the tradition of your parents. For what? For love. (142-267)

Nothing can break the parent-child relationship. Not even atomic bombs. This relationship can never break or be set apart or be abandoned. (21-69)

You may think of the husband and wife relationship as a destiny, but the parent-child relationship is not a destiny: It is an unchangeable fate. You must understand this. It is difficult to explain the difference. Destiny can be changed. It changes. Fate does not. Once you are born as sons and daughters of a particular parent, that never changes.

If so, which of these two relationships is more vertical and which is more horizontal? The parent-child relationship is vertical since it cannot be changed, and the husband and wife relationship is horizontal. That is why people who claim that the husband and wife relationship is primary are a horizontal flock and those claiming that the parent-child relationship is primary are a vertical flock. (169-59)

If we say, "Heavenly love does not appear from the start, but appears when a man and woman mature with their love, in their adolescence, and it is the love of a husband and wife," we say that love starts in the middle. So, what is the object form of the absolute value standard which could start at the very beginning of creation? The parent-child relationship.

So what is the parent-child relationship like? What relationship centers on love? What is the parent-child relationship? If the love between parents are the cause, the children are the fruit, and that is how we see it. The result and cause do not start far apart. The result and cause start from the same position. So what does it mean when we say I am the result of parents' love? I am the one who appeared as a result of the position of present love of my parents. So the child also has the position of result and cause made one in love.

So who am I? I am the one who appeared as the result of my parents' love and the one who attended the original start of love. This can never be set aside, since the cause and result started from one place. The origin of the parents' love which is the cause and my love of life which is the result are one. So, when we look at it from that point of view, we can say, centering on love, parent-child are one.

The phrase "one body" cannot exist without love. I have had parents since I was in my mother's body. From when I first appeared in my mother's body, as the result of love, the love and attention of my parents has been concentrated on me. Why is that? Because I am the fruit of love. So we are born from love and receive life from love, and after growing up with love we meet our spouse. (127-13)

Is there such a phrase as "parent-child" as one body? Is there not? Isn't there such a phrase? There is "parent-child" as one body. What comes next? Well, ladies want to come first, so... Wife and husband (laughter) Husband and wife as one body. Next, brothers as one body. We must know that. Nowadays people know only husband and wife as one body. In the fallen world that is the only purpose. So they know only husband and wife as one body.

Nowadays, parent-child as one body is not thought of before husband and wife as one body. That sort of phrase does not normally come out. Husband and wife as one body, parent-child as one body, what comes next? Brothers as one body? Brothers as one body. So, if my brother is in a position to die, I must die. Does that sort of thing happen or not? It does. If cutting off your arm will save your brother's life, you should cut it off.

Somebody in our church has said that his son's eyes are disabled. His son is blind. So he went to a famous eye doctor and said, "Doctor, will you do me a favor?" "What is it?" "I have two eyes and they are very good; and I want to have one of them taken out. What do you think?" "Why do you want one taken out?" "I have someone I want to give it to." "To whom are you going to give it?" "I want to trade one of my eyes with one of my son's." Through this story we can be sure that fathers always want to give something good to their sons. That is parent-child as one body. When you sleep in a cold room, doesn't your belly hurt? Your belly feels the cold first. [Yes] If so, which part of your body do you cover with a quilt? [The belly] Yes, we cover our belly. And when your feet feel cold, you move your quilt from your belly to your feet. That is one body. One body acts to correct any small fault in it, and in order to do so, it sacrifices one of its parts. That is, it works to return any part to its original standard. (53-30)