"Already twenty years have passed since the persecution broke out; the black soil of Japan has been filled with the la…"

"What do I want to say? I myself do not quite understand. Only that today, when for the glory of God Mokichi and Ichiz…"

"We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one mor…"

"I tell you the truth—for a long, long time these farmers have worked like horses and cattle; and like horses and catt…"

"Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is…"

"Man is a strange being. He always has a feeling somewhere in his heart that whatever the danger he will pull through.…"

"The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools."

"Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to w…"

"If we did not believe that truth is universal, why should so many missionaries endure these hardships? It is precisel…"

"His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more th…"