\The Divine Principle teaches that we will become divine spirits. When we ask where God the creator of the vast universe is, He is not somewhere else. He is amongst the descendants who have been born with the connection of vertical true love. God is amongst the men and women who have been born inheriting the true blood lineage of the vertical parents of true love.

Where is God? He is within love. He is within true love. If my mind and body establish true love, then God will be there. Where is God's house? True Love is God's house. \If you reach that standard of original man who has not fallen, the parents of humankind are the vertical parents. Centering on true love, who are the horizontal parents of the horizontal parents? [True Parents.] This is the ideology of the Messiah. What does Messiah mean? You have to know this. I have to explain this to you clearly. If I don't teach you, then when we go to the spirit world you will say, "Why didn't the mother and father who have the name of True Parents teach me these things?" If Mother doesn't teach you, then at least I have to teach you in order to be free of any accusation. (188-217)

So what do you have to live centered on? The family in which the parents center on their children, teaching them, "We must not be separated," will be ruined. On the other hand, the family in which the parents teach their children to live for the society, and the nation, will prosper. The family in which the parents say, "I am a butcher, so you must become a butcher" or, "I am a salesman, so you must become a salesman," will be ruined.

All parents say to their children, "You must become a great person for the sake of the country." But today the world is already at our front door. So the age for saying, "Live for the country," has passed. We should educate them now saying, "You have to become a world level figure" Are you doing this or not? This is what we are supposed to do. Live together with the world! Because I know your state of mind, I am giving you this kind of conclusion. (28-192)

There are many difficulties for parents raising their loving children. However, you have to endure these difficulties and raise your children pledging yourself for tomorrow's hope. Because the parents love the country, it is not a sin for them to treat their children better than the country. When you love your children more than you love the country, having the hope that you will have your children keep the future country safe, it is not a sin.

In other words, because you were not a loyal subject to the country, loving your children more than the country in order to have them take your place, being the loyal subjects of the future, is not a sin. On the other hand, it is a sin if you don't try to make them into loyal subjects of the future and love your children more than you love the country, but hope that they will be filial to you alone. All the formulas are like this. (33-328)

In your families, you mothers have to become heartistic mothers. You have to become heartistic mothers of righteousness. When you make a mistake in the way you relate to your children, you must repent. There are some people who feel resentful when their husband swears at them once, but then turn around and treat the children in the same way.

If Heaven has sent you children that heaven and earth can love, the mother has to embrace them with a love even greater than that. She must pray for their blessing, and also become a foundation through which she can help them to have the heartistic relationship with Heaven. If you don't do this.... You have to know just how important the position of the mother is. Do you understand? [Yes.]

You should raise your children in your family, but you should not think about telling them that they should become children who, centering on your family give love only to you. If you are a Unification Church member, even when you start breastfeeding your baby, you have to think that your baby is living for Heaven and earth. If you probe the connection of your sons and daughters you will find that they are the children whom God had planned to create before the fall of Adam and Eve, and that they are connected to the heart of God.

So your sons and daughters are beings that will represent the historical re-creation. But you are just embracing them saying, "My son. My daughter." So when Unification Church family members bring up their children, they should know how to treat them with respect. It is not right to swear at your children saying this and this. No, that is not the order of things. You should have hope and that hope must be passed on to your children. Everything is connected, be it through the children, through your spouse or through your parents. We can say that the enduring hope of humankind is the hope that will be set up by Heaven, but you can only achieve this hope through the way of the Heavenly moral law. (8-108)

Don't show your tears to your children. Don't let them hear the sound of fighting voices. That kind of thing is very frightening to the children. They worry about their parents more than they worry about Heaven, the country, or anyone else. Don't make the clean way dirty. It is good to have children but if you don't raise them in the right way you are failures as parents. This is a very serious matter. You must treat them very carefully. They are the second God. Isn't that so?

When you hug your children centering on heart, embrace them as though you were embracing humankind from God's position with the heart of truly great parents, so that they can give hope to the world, representing the country, the world and Heaven. As a filial son and daughter, you have children who can comfort God. You give them to the universe and make them belong to the cosmos. In order to fulfill this great work, from now on you must both take up the burden. Just because they are still rough, you must not treat them as though they are like some kind of wart stuck on the side of the body. (183-143)