Maybe you have seen this kind of thing in society: There is a disabled son of some parents and that son cannot understand his parents' love. How miserable it must be for the parents! Even if the parents give love at the amount of 100, or even of 1, the son would not understand it. Still, the parents cannot help loving him, and when they see their son not being able to understand and receive what he is given, the parents who loved the son at the amount of 100 feel far more sorrow than the amount of love they have given. When they try to love their child with one love, but if they do not have a child who can attend that love, there would be greater tragedy than this. It is truly depressing.

When the parents want to give love 100 percent, if there was a son or a daughter who can receive more than that, how happy would the parents be? They will feel more joy than if they had given a thousand. Also, we know that the opposite can happen. So, in this viewpoint, parents with children who cannot receive what their parents have given them are miserable. If that happens not once, but forever, those parents must be sad and miserable parents, unimaginably sad. (62-19)

When loving parents look at their children, and one of them is sick or disabled, the high and deep love of parents flows to that child; that is the Principle. Is that wrong? The heart of the disabled child is like a glen. The heart of the parents is like a high peak. So the parents' heart flows from the peak to the deep glen. (147-166)

There is nothing bad in the hearts of parents living for the sake of their children. The more worn out the mother's clothes are, the more miserable they are, the more the love of the mother flows down the valley of tears. (173-263)

Even if the children had some fault, a loving parent would not point it out at first. They want their children to inherit only the good points. Even if the parents hit the child on the cheek to scold them, they feel sorry and regret it; that is their heart. They did not hit the child because of the bad incident. If there is any small way in which the child has taken after the parents, the parents appreciate it more than the bad point and on that basis they try to understand the child; that is the heart of parents raising children. (16-172)

Which side would parents take when brothers in one family fight with each other? There are no parents which take the side of a child who raises his fist first for his own desires. That is why, throughout history, the standard of education and moral principle was to be good. (31-235)

So, if there was a son born into a rich family with the largest farmland in the world, when he rides the horse every day, that is not enough to make his parents love him. It is not like that.

Parents love children who help the parents when they are doing difficult physical work, even if he has no occupation and hangs around the house all the time. That sort of person is a wise person. This is like the positions of Esau and Jacob. (33-324)

God does not want to put us in a low position, even if we are inadequate. Although the child is inadequate, the heart of parents wants to put him in a higher position. In this society, a friend or a teacher might want to put us in a low position if we are inadequate, but God would want to put us in a higher, more noble position. Inadequate people might think God pays less attention to them, but God worries more for inadequate people. You must understand this. (24-161)