Public Purpose

Blessing is public. In order to receive blessing, therefore, you must become a public offering to set up a condition for that purpose. How precious it is to take the responsibility of a public task!

A parent who is responsible in a public position can never have bad children.

I am the one who is continually used for the public purpose.

In the Last Days, God will place all men and all nations on the same starting line in order to make them start all over again.

Assume liabilities yourself, while giving the benefits to the public purpose. Serving the public purpose becomes a foundation on which to receive heavenly blessing. Blessing comes after you have trod the whole path and finished the battle.

Goodness, happiness, righteousness and blessing-these are all of public nature. To possess these, therefore, you must go through a public course. Although personal things come and go, you must leave public blessing for the nation and mankind.

The one who constantly lives for the public purpose is the strongest, most formidable and wisest man.

"Public" implies something of an historical and future nature. In other words, it is guaranteed by history and proves itself in the present and future.

We did not put ourselves in a public position. We must remember that we are placed in that position because we are connected with our ancestors' desires and circumstances and God's public benefit. Therefore, all those spirit men with whom we are historically connected are on our side. Only if we put ourselves in the position of an offering with more public conviction and loyalty than our ancestors did, will all the good past historical and public connections re-appear today.

I am the king of affection, but when I am in my public position I am merciless and strict. Everyone must feel righteous indignation in public matters.

It is not bad to have personal relations, but in matters relating to the Will of God we must put an end to them. Pray that I may abandon personal relations for the sake of heavenly relations. This kind of prayer will really console me.

No man since the beginning of history has ever accomplished his public mission. Fight, therefore, having the confidence that you are a historical person with a public mission who works in place of those in the past.

Try to see yourself as a public figure. A public figure is in a responsible position because he is located in the midway position between above and below, between front and rear, between right and left. If he leaves his position, everything topples down. To have a good conscience means to be on a direct line between heaven and earth. Therefore, a public person must never act according to his own will.

The public virtues of loyalty and filial piety are approved even by man. Find the way of realizing these.

You should be a man who has words to speak and has things to do. Leave something behind upon your death.

A man who cannot love his country can never love God. If you surrender ten times, you will be able to win ten times. If the entire world goes against you, you will be able to claim all the blessing from the world.

Being in a public position means being in the position of an offering. An offering should transcend its consciousness of self and its idea of possession.

Don't minimize the responsibility God has entrusted to you. Add your effort to the gift He has given you. Don't owe debts of heart to brothers and sisters.

Maintain your public position.

In order to have public authority, pray that God may give you:
1. Such faith as will enable you to do anything for His Will,
2. such love as was never given to man from Him,
3. and wisdom.

I am an individual, and yet I am not an individual. I represent everything and all history. If you fail me, therefore, a complicated process of indemnity awaits you. I reproach you in public in a loud voice if you violate the heavenly law, not because I hate you, but because without publicly announcing your sin before heaven and earth I would not be able to indemnify it. Therefore, when I announce it in public I am already taking responsibility for it.

God is no more sorrowful than when He must wake up people who are asleep to give them His blessing.

Don't take official objects without deep consideration, and don't handle them roughly. If you handle them carelessly, you will forfeit all your accomplishment.

Before receiving blessing you must establish a condition by which you will never be deprived of that blessings condition which will prevent Satan's accusation. The safest way to preserve blessing is to always undergo hardship in a public position.

If you are for the public, you are guaranteed by history, the present age and the future. Thus, to be for the public has historical, contemporary and future value.

If you are a public being, you cannot say that you belong to yourself. But you are a great being because you belong to the public.

We should not become a group of people who regard the situation of the nation alone as if it were the situation of the whole.

Fire up your public righteous indignation.

If a hundred people think only of themselves, then you should have more than a hundred public thoughts.

God cooperates with you if you act by making the most of His Will and transcend all your private matters. You should not act according to the desire of your flesh.

To be for the public consists in having a reciprocal relationship with a higher center.

He who lives for the public has a lifeline in God.

If a pledged condition is fulfilled, it is a big condition. When you sweat at the risk of your life and stand up, God cannot help relating to you.