Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

I don't like discussing my private life in public. It feels strange.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Perhaps because of Japan's mentality and culture, our faithful are reluctant to talking about their Christian faith to others. Today we need a more explicit Gospel proclamation.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.

I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Totally bizarre situation—which I never talk about, because it was actually not really part of my life at all.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

I never discuss anything else except politics and religion. There is nothing else to discuss.

Vibrant debate and dissent exist in this country, but you are not reading or hearing about this in the mainstream press.

Everyone explains that discussions about Socialism are exceedingly obscure; this obscurity is due, to a large extent, to the fact that contemporary socialists use a terminology which no longer corresponds to their ideas.

It is curious that those who claim such firm knowledge about God’s nature and works become silent when asked about God’s methods.

She's rarely vocal about her beliefs unless provoked.