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

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

I became a Catholic against my will.

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.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

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.