Emily

“Bamboo and pine denote endurance and fidelity. No matter how cold the winter or how torrid the summer, they remain green and vigorous.”
― Paul Glynn, A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb

“You best meet the Supernatural if you make your heart like a hut that is empty of everything but the bare essentials.”
― Paul Glynn, A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb

“Midori turned her head and spoke quietly with composure. ‘We said before we married, and before you went to China the second time, that if our lives are spent for the glory of God, then life and death are beautiful. You have given everything you had for work and that was very important. It was for His glory.”
― Paul Glynn, A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb

“After the carnage, smoke and ash of the last few days, the mountains never looked so beautiful or dependable. That Chinese poet had expressed it well: ‘Though the nation go under, the mountains and streams remain.’ Though men explode atom bombs, God’s sunlight never fails.

Scientist Nagai corrected that thought: ‘The sun’s fuel is already half spent, and one day sunlight will disappear and the green mountains around me will die, just as surely as my wife died and my books and medals turned to ash.’ His copy of the New Testament had also turned to ash, but as he walked, a verse from it took hold of his heart: ‘The heavens and the earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.’ There it was, the truth more reliable than mountains and sunlight, and the answer to the horror and sadness of August 9th.”
― Paul Glynn, A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb