Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

I became a Catholic against my will.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

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.