Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese activist Toyohiko Kagawa.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Protestant Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them. He advocated for women's suffrage and promoted a peaceful foreign policy.
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.
That God,
Who dwells in my hand,
Knows this secret plan
Of the things
He will do for the world
Using my hand!
Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin
may
wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning
at life.
It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.
Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight
Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.
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.
Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.
The darkness is a holy of holies of which no one can rob me. In the darkness I meet God face to face.
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.
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.
As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.
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.