Quotes by Sun Myung Moon

A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.
– Sun Myung Moon
After being released from Danbury prison, I prevailed over the U.S. Congress within seven years. Do you understand? I prevailed over the United Nations General Assembly in seven years.
– Sun Myung Moon
Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.
– Sun Myung Moon
Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.
– Sun Myung Moon
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
– Sun Myung Moon
Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.
– Sun Myung Moon
Don't pray for yourself; this is my teaching. Pray for your mission; pray for others; pray so that your prayer can reach God as a comforting word.
– Sun Myung Moon
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.
– Sun Myung Moon
I am not anyone's enemy.
– Sun Myung Moon
I am not working at random or just on a whim. Our movement has a deep spiritual origin. It came into being at this particular time by a mandate of God. I have a divine guiding light. Even though many people think I am just doing things my own way, there is no such thing as my own way.
– Sun Myung Moon
I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.
– Sun Myung Moon
I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.
– Sun Myung Moon
I do not condemn material things as satanic. The deciding factor is the man who controls them and uses them. If your motivation is absolutely God-centered, absolutely unselfish, then the material things are there for you to utilize for the benefit of humanity.
– Sun Myung Moon
I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
– Sun Myung Moon
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
– Sun Myung Moon
If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.
– Sun Myung Moon
In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
– Sun Myung Moon
In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.
– Sun Myung Moon
In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat.
– Sun Myung Moon
Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation.
– Sun Myung Moon
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
– Sun Myung Moon
My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
– Sun Myung Moon
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
– Sun Myung Moon
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
– Sun Myung Moon
Our movement has the greatest weapon if you use that word truth. We also have the greatest target: the human heart.
– Sun Myung Moon
People who sow a selfish life here on earth will reap hell thereafter. But this is not the result of the condemnation of God. One cannot reap heaven if he lives and acts against God. God is a God of love; by having humanity suffering in hell, his heart is aching. He cannot enjoy this. God's desire is to ultimately liberate even hell.
– Sun Myung Moon
So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die - those who go against our movement.
– Sun Myung Moon
The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.
– Sun Myung Moon
The established churches or religious organizations in this country are generally declining, overwhelmed by secular thoughts, secular culture. But the Unification Church is different; we don't feel any decline of spirit in our movement. We are pioneers; we are like a volcano erupting.
– Sun Myung Moon
The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.
– Sun Myung Moon
The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N.
– Sun Myung Moon
The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.
– Sun Myung Moon
The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.
– Sun Myung Moon
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
– Sun Myung Moon
The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.
– Sun Myung Moon
There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.
– Sun Myung Moon
There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
– Sun Myung Moon
Therefore, as individuals and families you have to absolutely follow True Parents. Your opinion cannot stand against True Parents.
– Sun Myung Moon
Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
– Sun Myung Moon
To attain this true peace, Jesus first sought to bring about a revolution of man. In this sense he came for war.
– Sun Myung Moon
True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
– Sun Myung Moon
Until our mission with the Christian Church is over, we must quote the Bible and use it to explain the Divine Principle. After we receive the inheritance of the Christian Church, we will be free to teach without the Bible. Now, however, our primary mission is to witness to the Christian Church.
– Sun Myung Moon
When you bow to True Parents' picture and display the Unification Church flag, Satan will have to go far away from your home.
– Sun Myung Moon