“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… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“If Christians insist that “if you want peace, work for justice,” the Buddhists would counter-insist, “if you want peace, be peace.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“Generalizing grossly, what Buddhists mean by practice is more interior and personal, while what Christians mean is more external and social. Or as Aloysius… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“But if there is an ongoing, nagging disconnect between, on the one hand, what I can and must affirm to be true and good… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“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;… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“So contemplation – regular practices of spirituality – is necessary both to have a product to deliver and to have the energy to deliver it.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“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 earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24). In this passage, Jesus, in looking ahead to his own death, speaks about death for all of… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share
“Jesus was such a powerful, “saving” Teacher because he was what he taught.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“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… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“If Mystery is the goal and content of all religious experience, then Silence is a necessary means of letting Mystery speak.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“Salvation, therefore, is not a transaction that takes place outside us, but rather an empowering awareness that explodes within and then pervades our entire… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“For Buddhists, to experience Awakening is to experience the interconnectedness that makes us all one. For Christians, to experience the Divine as Love is… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
