God established religion in order to restore fallen man through indemnity. Through religion, God is teaching the method to strengthen a God-centered spirit and the method to reverse the dominion of the physical body over human life and character.
Quotes about religion
From the speeches of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han
Love has a blind power of breakthrough. Religion can transcend life and death because it is the way of love.
The root is one, therefore God is one. When people talk about God, they use different names to refer to Him because each nation has a different language. Yet the Original Being is one.
The most miserable person in this world is not he who has no property, but he who has no wife and child.
The early Christians called God “Father.” Becoming free and able to call God “Father” marked a great religious discovery.
The Bible introduces the love of God, but we cannot feel His love only by having the Bible. We have to know and embody His Heart.
God can give a rope to a fallen man, but He cannot come down to man's fallen state to lift him up directly. Man has to hold on to the rope of religion that God has given him, and he has to do it by exerting himself. That is the heart. How careful that heart is will shorten your distance to God.
Nothing exists for its own sake. Religion, too, does not exist for its own sake but for the sake of love and peace. Once world peace is accomplished, there will be no further need for religion. The ultimate purpose of religion is to bring about the reality of a human community filled with love and peace.
What is the purpose of religion? It is to bring about God’s ideal world. The reason religions evangelize is because they desire to increase the number of citizens under God’s sovereignty. If everyone were to live under God’s sovereignty, we would have a world of peace where there would be no war or division. The ultimate destination of the path followed by religions should be peace.
The greatest purpose of religion is to build true families.
When teaching God's words, therefore, you should aim at conveying His shimjeong.
In the Last Days, religion, philosophy, ideology and thought will be explained in light of shimjeong religion, shimjeong philosophy, shimjeong ideology and shimjeong thought, respectively.
The religion that can lead us to the world of shimjeong is the religion which impressively teaches that God is the most pitiful being of all.
The perfection of human beings and peace in the world come about through the family.