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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 how we”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-f-knitter/to-put-it-bluntly-but-also-imploringly-we-christians-need-more/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

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## Other authors on Need Silence

## 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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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/)

[Paul F. Knitter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-f-knitter/)

> [“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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