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“Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God ��. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“For the core of religion is the twinned principle of arrogance and fear. Fear of oblivion. Fear of an unfair life and an arbitrary universe. Fear of there simply being nothing, no great and grand scheme to existence. The fear, ultimately, of being powerless.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Master of Mankind

“What do I want to say? I myself do not quite understand. Only that today, when for the glory of God Mokichi and Ichizo moaned, suffered and died, I cannot bear the monotonous sound of the dark sea gnawing at the shore. Behind the depressing silence of this sea, the silence of God....the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence

“Trample! It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men's pain that I carried my cross.”
― Shūsaku Endō, Silence