But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct.
The seeds of salvation are buried in every act of evil.
When you sail, don'tPull up the anchor weeping.Be a man, do it laughing...
Trample! It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men's pain that I carried my cross.
For the first time in her life Tomoe came to the realization that there are fools and fools. A man who loves others with an open-hearted simplicity, who trusts others, no matter who they are, even if...
No doubt his fellow priests would condemn his act as sacrilege; but even if he was betraying them, he was not betraying his Lord. He loved him now in a different way from before. Everything that had t...
What do I want to say? I myself do not quite understand. Only that today, when for the glory of God Mokichi and Ichizo moaned, suffered and died, I cannot bear the monotonous sound of the dark sea gna...
Prayer does nothing to alleviate suffering.
To help others is the way of Buddha and the teaching of Christianity - in this point the two religions are the same. What matters is weather or not you walk the path of truth.That is not God. It is li...
It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.
كان ذلك هو البحر الذى اكتسح دون هوادة جثتى موكيشى و ايشيزو البحر الذى أبتلعهما البحر الذى أمتد عقب حتفهما بلا انتهاء بملامح لم تعرف التغيير شأن البحر كان الله صامتا, تطاول صمته
They were martyred. But what a martyrdom! I had long read about martyrdom in the lives of the saints--how the souls of the martyrs had gone home to Heaven, how they had been filled with glory in Parad...
There are neither the strong nor the weak. Can anyone say that the weak do not suffer more than the strong?
The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude. Th...
In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.
Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.
At night as he lay in bed with his eyes closed listening to the song of the turtledove in the trees, behind his closed eyelids he would pass through every scene in the life of Christ. From childhood t...
The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.
No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.
But our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.
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