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Justice & Law Quote by 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"

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Power rarely announces itself as loudly as it does here. Moon frames domination as destiny: authority arriving "without my seeking it", as if history, not ambition, is doing the work. That little disclaimer is the tell. It’s the rhetorical move of a religious entrepreneur who knows that naked appetite spooks audiences, while inevitability reassures them. If the power comes to him unbidden, then submitting to it can feel like submitting to the natural order.

The syntax is blunt, almost administrative: "If I ask... it will be done". Not persuasion, not guidance, not even revelation - compliance. The phrase "almost serve as law" is doing strategic double duty. "Almost" offers plausible deniability, a softener that lets the speaker flirt with absolutism while keeping one foot in humility. "Law" borrows the prestige of the state, implying that spiritual leadership can outmuscle civic structures without having to openly declare a theocracy.

Context matters: Moon built a global movement that mixed theology with disciplined organization, political networking, and a keen sense of media. In that world, charisma isn’t just personal magnetism; it’s infrastructure. This quote reads like internal messaging as much as prophecy - a leader signaling to followers that alignment with his will is alignment with the future. The subtext isn’t merely "I will be influential". It’s "prepare yourselves to treat my preferences as reality". That’s how movements convert belief into muscle: by training people to experience a person’s desires as moral necessity.

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Moon, Sun Myung. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-time-will-come-without-my-seeking-it-that-my-119078/

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Moon, Sun Myung. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-time-will-come-without-my-seeking-it-that-my-119078/.

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"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-time-will-come-without-my-seeking-it-that-my-119078/. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.

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Sun Myung Moon (January 6, 1920 - September 2, 2012) was a Clergyman from Korea.

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