Wisdom from Takashi Nagai

 
 
 

Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don’t understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is suffering. If you haven’t cried, you can’t dry another’s eyes. Unless you’ve walked in darkness, you can’t help wanderers find the way. Unless you’ve looked into the eyes of menacing death and felt its hot breath, you can’t help another rise from the dead and taste anew the joy of being alive.

—Takashi Nagai

quoted in the book, A Song for Nagasaki

 

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RADICAL FORGIVENESS

Takashi Nagai’s incredible story of conversion and faith is featured in Hallow’s 2025 Lent challenge, entitled Pray40: The Way. Follow Nagai’s path from atheism to Catholicism, his resilience as a survivor of the atomic bomb, and his profound journey toward forgiveness. Through his remarkable story of suffering and redemption, readers will be guided to embrace their own call to faith and conversion.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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