“Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.” — 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… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“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
“To put it bluntly but also imploringly: we Christians need more silence in our services and liturgies. Just how this might be realized, just… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“Christian prayer is generally too worshipful and therefore dualistic. And it is too wordy.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.” — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
