Toyohiko Kagawa Quotes

• I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily satisfied with just going about.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Littles, Action, Creation

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• In the heart of the God of the universe, each child of his is as necessary to him as the fingers are to the hand.-In the marvelous design of the universe, not even a sparrow can fall to earth meaninglessly.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Children, Fall, Heart

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• As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Inspirational, Soul, Stones

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• Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Love Is, Essence, Violence

  Toyohiko Kagawa, Robert Elliott Speer (1931). “The Religion of Jesus”

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• That God,
  Who dwells in my hand,
  Knows this secret plan
  Of the things
  He will do for the world
  Using my hand!

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  God, Hands, Secret

  "Songs from the slums".

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• It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Children, Choices, Essentials

  Toyohiko Kagawa (1935). “Meditations on the cross”

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• Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin
  may
  wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning
  at life.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Wrinkles, Yawning, Skins

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• Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded on bread alone makes a great mistake. No matter how much bread there is, it cannot produce a man: it can only nourish him. Life exists before food. Man's life comes from the very origin of life. Therefore civilization does not follow the forms of production. All social life follows the action of life.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Life, Mistake, Men

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• Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Running, Book, Science

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• Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Love, Truth, Finals

  Toyohiko Kagawa (1960). “Kagawa, Japanese prophet: his witness in life and word”

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• The darkness is a holy of holies of which no one can rob me. In the darkness I meet God face to face.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Darkness, Faces, Holy

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• Love is creation raised to a higher degree.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Love, Degrees, Creation

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• Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Men

  Toyohiko Kagawa, Robert Elliott Speer (1931). “The Religion of Jesus”

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