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> [“In sum, passing over to Buddhist spiritual practice has taught me, and can teach my church, that all our words, whether in Christian theology or Christian liturgy, must arise from and lead back to Silence. Only then do they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/in-sum-passing-over-to-buddhist-spiritual-practice-has-taught-me-and/)

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## More by Paul F. Knitter

> [“If Christians insist that “if you want peace, work for justice,” the Buddhists would counter-insist, “if you want peace, be peace.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/if-christians-insist-that-if-you-want-peace-work-for-justice-the/)

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> [“Generalizing grossly, what Buddhists mean by practice is more interior and personal, while what Christians mean is more external and social. Or as Aloysius…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/generalizing-grossly-what-buddhists-mean-by-practice-is-more-interior/)

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> [“But if there is an ongoing, nagging disconnect between, on the one hand, what I can and must affirm to be true and good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/but-if-there-is-an-ongoing-nagging-disconnect-between-on-the-one-hand/)

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> [“And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/and-this-power-in-their-teaching-had-to-do-first-of-all-with-the/)

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> [“Salvation understood as a revelation of our being in Christ or of our Buddha-nature is not just a wonderful revealing of what we are;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/salvation-understood-as-a-revelation-of-our-being-in-christ-or-of-our/)

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> [“So contemplation – regular practices of spirituality – is necessary both to have a product to deliver and to have the energy to deliver it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/so-contemplation-regular-practices-of-spirituality-is-necessary-both/)

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> [“Buddhism also throws new, and I believe fuller, light on an oft-quoted passage from John’s Gospel: “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/buddhism-also-throws-new-and-i-believe-fuller-light-on-an-oft-quoted/)

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> [“Jesus was such a powerful, “saving” Teacher because he was what he taught.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/jesus-was-such-a-powerful-saving-teacher-because-he-was-what-he-taught/)

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> [“The person I am with a seventy-year-old body (and all its accumulated experience) will not only look but will truly be different from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/the-person-i-am-with-a-seventy-year-old-body-and-all-its-accumulated/)

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> [“If Mystery is the goal and content of all religious experience, then Silence is a necessary means of letting Mystery speak.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/if-mystery-is-the-goal-and-content-of-all-religious-experience-then/)

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> [“Salvation, therefore, is not a transaction that takes place outside us, but rather an empowering awareness that explodes within and then pervades our entire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/salvation-therefore-is-not-a-transaction-that-takes-place-outside-us/)

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> [“For Buddhists, to experience Awakening is to experience the interconnectedness that makes us all one. For Christians, to experience the Divine as Love is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/for-buddhists-to-experience-awakening-is-to-experience-the/)

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> [“To put it bluntly but also imploringly: we Christians need more silence in our services and liturgies. Just how this might be realized, just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/to-put-it-bluntly-but-also-imploringly-we-christians-need-more/)

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> [“Christian prayer is generally too worshipful and therefore dualistic. And it is too wordy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/christian-prayer-is-generally-too-worshipful-and-therefore-dualistic/)

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> [“Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/thomas-merton-once-said-that-some-of-the-most-violent-people-he-met/)

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