Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

I became a Catholic against my will.

Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he has left behind.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.