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61 " Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs. "
― Shūsaku Endō
62 " But the scrawny, powerless man with his arms outstretched on the cross had at some point reclaimed Otsu. Still, that doesn't change the fact that I won. With startling rapacity God had merely picked up a man I discarded. "
― Shūsaku Endō , Deep River
63 " His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action. "
― Shūsaku Endō , Silence
64 " His only solace and support was in the thought of that other man who had also tasted fear and trembling. And then there was joy in the thought that he was not alone. "
65 " The priest raises his foot. In it he feels a dull, heavy pain. This is no mere formality. He will now trample on what he has considered the most beautiful thing in his life, on what he has believed most pure, on what is filled with the ideals and the dreams of man. "
66 " ¿Qué tratas de hacer ahora? Bautizar a unos hombres que no creen en el Señor para tu propio beneficio es un pecado y una profanación. Y también un acto de arrogancia mediante el cual cargas al Señor con los pecados de hombres sin fe mediante el sacramento del bautismo. "
67 " Siapa pun bisa tertarik oleh yang cantik-cantik dan memesona. Tetapi bisakah ketertarikan semacam itu disebut cinta kasih? Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping. "
68 " You make yourself more important than them. You are preoccupied with your own salvation. If you say that you will apostatize, those people will be taken out of the pit. They will be saved from suffering. And you refuse to do so. It's because you dread to betray the Church. You dread to be the dregs of the Church, like me." Until now Ferreira's words had burst out as a single breath of anger, but now his voice gradually weakened as he said: "Yet I was the same as you. On that cold, black night I, too, was as you are now. And yet is your way of acting love? A priest ought to life in imitation of Christ. If Christ were here..."For a moment Ferreira remained silent; then he suddenly broke out in a strong voice: "Certainly Christ would have apostatized for them. "
69 " Es verdad que guardaba silencio, pero se le quedaba mirando con una mirada transida de ternura. Parecía querer decir: «Cuando tú sufres, Yo sufro a tu lado. Estaré a tu lado hasta el final». "
70 " ¡No! ¡No hay tal cosa!" -negaba con la cabeza-. "Si Dios no existiera, el hombre no podría soportar la monotonía de ese mar, esa frialdad siniestra..."."Pero si por un imposible... Sólo es un imposible, por supuesto..." -Ahora era otra voz la que retumbaba en un rincón profundo de mi ser- "Si, por un imposible, Dios no existiera...".Era una fantasía aterradora. Si Dios no existiera, ¡qué ridículo resultaba todo! Si no existiera, ¡qué drama tan ridículo las vidas de Ichizou y Mokichi, atados a las estacas y bañados por las olas...! ¡Qué ridículo el espejismo que vinieron persiguiendo los misioneros: tres años largos cruzando mares para llegar a este país! "
71 " But generals who warm themselves by the fire in a tent should not reproach the soldiers that are taken prisoner "
72 " To help others is the way of Buddha and the teaching of Christianity - in this point the two religions are the same. What matters is weather or not you walk the path of truth.""That is not God. It is like a butterfly caught in a spider's web. At first it is certainly a butterfly, but the next day only the externals, the wings and the trunk, are those of a butterfly; it has lost it's true reality and has become a skeleton. "
73 " Selama ini aku percaya bahwa doa dipanjatkan untuk memuji dan memuliakan namamu; tetapi saat aku berbicara kepadamu sepertinya aku hanya menghujat. Pada hari kematianku, apakahh dunia juga tetap berputar tak peduli seperti sekarang ini? Setelah aku mati dibunuh, apakah jangkrik-jangkrik akan tetap bernyanyi dan lalat-lalat terbang berdengung-dengung menimbulkan kantuk? Maukah aku mati secara gagah berani seperti itu? Tapi apakah aku benar-benar ingin mati sebagai martir sejati yang tidak dikenal, atau sekadar ingin mati mulia dan dipuja-puja? Ingin dihormati, dipanjatkan doa, disebut orang suci? "
74 " Levantó el pie. Le dolía con un dolor sordo, pesado... Esto era más que una fórmula. Él, en este momento, estaba a punto de pisotear lo más bello que había soñado en su vida, lo que había creído más puro, lo que llenaba el ideal y los sueños de los hombres... "
75 " Cinta kasih sejati sanggup menerima manusia-manusia yang kotor dan compang-camping. "
76 " Tapi apa yang ditetapkan Tuhan tentunya lebih baik daripada yang bisa diberikan atau yang terpikir oleh manusia. "
77 " Setiap orang yang mengakui Aku di depan manusia, Aku juga akan mengakuinya di depan Bapa-Ku yang di surga. Tetapi barangsiapa menyangkal Aku di depan manusia, Aku juga akan menyangkalnya di depan Bapa-Ku yang di surga. "
78 " His feelings towards Feirrera were not only of contempt and hatred; there was also a sense of pity, a common feeling of self-pity of two men who shared the same fate. Yes, they were just like two ugly twins, he suddenly reflected as once he looked at Ferreira's back. They hated one another's ugliness; they despised one another; but that's what they were -- two inseparable twins. "
79 " Dosa bukanlah apa yang biasanya dikira orang, pikirnya; dosa bukanlah karena mencuri dan berbohong. Dosa adalah kalau orang menginjak-injak kehidupan orang lain secara brutal dan sama sekali tidak peduli akan luka-luka yang ditimbulkannya. "
80 " Tuhan menciptakan segala sesuatu untuk kebaikan. Dan untuk kebaikan ini pula dia menganugerahkan kepada manusia kemampuan berpikir; tapi kita manusia kadang-kadang menggunakan kemampuan diskriminasi ini secara keliru. Inilah kejahatan. "