Quotes by : Shūsaku Endō

« My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast ! I will sing and make melody ! Awake my soul !....

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Not all men are handsome and strong. There are some who are cowards from birth. There are some who are....

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

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

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive....

The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this....

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

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

Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their....