Toyohiko Kagawa Quotes

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Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded on bread alone makes a great mistake. No matter how much bread there is, it cannot produce a man: it can only nourish him. Life exists before food. Man's life comes from the very origin of life. Therefore civilization does not follow the forms of production. All social life follows the action of life.

Toyohiko Kagawa

Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight

Toyohiko Kagawa

Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

Toyohiko Kagawa

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

Toyohiko Kagawa

It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God...

Toyohiko Kagawa

Toyohiko Kagawa

Toyohiko Kagawa

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Born: July 10, 1888

Died: April 23, 1960 (aged 71)

Bio: Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to live among them.

Known for:

Cosmic Purpose
Christ and Japan (1934)
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Toyohiko Kagawa on Wikipedia

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