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Suffering

• ¶ 5…and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering—in brief…
• ¶ 32The benighted one is incompetent to assuage sufferings, because he is attached to desires and is lecherous. Oppressed by physical and mental pain, he keeps rotating…
• ¶ 81Nevertheless, grappling with the suffering and misery of human life is not sufficient to bring a lasting solution. We must go deeper and uproot the fundamental…

Suffering 고통

Suffering in Pyongyang Prison and Hungnam Labor Camp

Father tells the story of his incarceration, trial, and imprisonment in Pyongyang

The Pinnacle of Suffering

• ¶ 33To liberate God's suffering, we must experience greater pain than God's own pain at the fall. Our desire and hope is only to go…
• ¶ 10…suffering in his own life, he cannot liberate God. God is in a position to have happiness, not suffering. If there are people who are suffering…
• ¶ 15…man's suffering throughout history were planted by Adam and Eve being corrupted at the beginning of human history, and from that time on, suffering was…

Our Leader on Suffering, Sacrifice, Obedience, and the Kingdom of Heaven

• ¶ 12God has borne alone the bitterest suffering and sorrow of history without being comforted or understood. Comfort the Father first before worrying about yourself. Heaven would…
• ¶ 4Heaven is the place where people gather who have triumphed over the suffering and pains of Hell.
• ¶ 10…for the sake of God, the cosmos, and mankind. So if we succeed, this term of suffering and hardship corresponds to the whole of human history.

Suffering Is Needed

The Suffering of Jesus upon the Cross

• ¶ 125I say again: you must know how great the suffering of Jesus, who stood upon the cross, must have been. Upon the cross, Jesus gazed toward…
• ¶ 47Jesus took it as a matter of course that he himself was sorrowful and suffering, and that hardship he could endure; but it was sorrowful to…
• ¶ 104For Jesus, who stood on a path of suffering and persecution and being driven about, there was no such place of glory. The disciples did not…

Slavery in Egypt and Suffering under Rome (400 years)

• ¶ 6…and thousands suffered martyrdom for their faith. When the suffering of Israel in Egypt was over, God sent Moses to deliver his people out of Egypt…

New Life and Suffering

• ¶ 49But if it is suffering done to turn history back and indemnify the history of suffering and the history of solitude, then, leaving aside the present…
• ¶ 46If it accords with the purpose of suffering, and if one suffered without relating it to God, and yet as a result it comes to be…
• ¶ 53…in such a position, wherever in the world they go, in an environment of suffering and persecution, they secure that inner standard, and even if they…

Why does God allow suffering?

The Divine Principle teaches that suffering was not part of God's original creation but entered human history through the Fall — the misuse of human freedom by the first ancestors.

Please Let Us Overcome the Suffering Way of the Will by Taking Your Example

• ¶ 1…has gone forward, tangled in our background until today.When we think that you searched while paying the price of such suffering, but we who were…

No Matter What Kind of Suffering It Is, Please Let Us Win Over All of It

• ¶ 1…to the fact that without that endurance they cannot avoid any kind of suffering.We have come to know the principle of heavenly morality that only…

Even If There Is a Path of the Thorns of Suffering, We Will Go for the Sake of the Will

• ¶ 1…along the true way, the way of heaven. Since they want to entrust the sorrow and suffering of humankind to you, as well, we earnestly hope…

Please Let Us Search for Your Course of Suffering

• ¶ 1…and humankind must take responsibility for the course of toil, suffering and endurance.If we have joy, please let us return it to you as yours…

Oh Father! Please Let the Suffering of This Nation End

• ¶ 1…the U.N. Therefore, Father, please let the suffering of this nation end.We are your children, Father, and at the same time, for the sake…

Please Enlighten Us As to Your Heart Which Has Sought This People in Suffering

Our Father of love! Since the day that Adam fell, how great have your efforts been to find one person whom you could believe?

Please Allow Us to Become Leading Figures Who Inherit the Sorrow and Suffering of Heaven

• ¶ 1…the heart of heaven and earth, and even if we die ten million times feeling your suffering and experiencing your sorrow, we must become sons and…

Oh Father, You Have Carried Out the Providence from a Position of More Suffering Than I

I have gone forward experiencing the position of sorrow and feeling the heart with which you have faced this world of enemies.

Victory Comes Out of the Internal Determination Made at the Beginning

• ¶ 1No matter how much suffering you may experience in your activities, and no matter how much you are persecuted by your environment, you should be able…
• ¶ 5…wondering why these young people seem to be wasting their youth, walking the path of suffering. Some of you had even entered Tokyo University and were…

Please Remember Your Children

• ¶ 16The more we think about the fact that all the paths of suffering these people had to walk were related to Your Will, the more we…
• ¶ 1…Father, in making the people of the Unification Church pass through a historical era of suffering because You loved us especially, we are truly grateful for…