According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.

In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.