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When you suffer, I suffer with you. To the end I am close to you.

There are neither the strong nor the weak. Can anyone say that the weak do not suffer more than the strong?

I became a Catholic against my will.

The important thing in this life is to link your sadness to the sadness of others.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.

I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.

Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs.

In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.

When you sail, don't
Pull up the anchor weeping.
Be a man, do it laughing ...

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

I don't want to die in darkness any thicker than this. I want to bring some kind of resolution in my life.

But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent ... ?

People are linked together by enmity than by love.

The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.

We'll shake, we'll shake the tree of dreams,
That solitary tree of dreams
In the centre of the verdant field.

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

but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.

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

Trample! Trample! It is to be trampled on by you that I am here.

Prayer does nothing to alleviate suffering.