Shusaku Endo Quotes

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.

I became a Catholic against my will.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

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.