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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True HEROISM

A Song for Nagasaki tells the moving story of Takashi Nagai, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, pioneer in radiology research, and convert to the Catholic Faith. After the bomb disaster that killed thousands, this extraordinary man threw himself into service to the countless victims of the bomb explosion, even though it meant deadly exposure to the radiation which eventually would cause his own death.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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