Original sin Quote 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.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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;…

— 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.”

— 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…

— Paul F. Knitter

“Jesus was such a powerful, “saving” Teacher because he was what he taught.”

— 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…

— Paul F. Knitter

“If Mystery is the goal and content of all religious experience, then Silence is a necessary means of letting Mystery speak.”

— 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…

— 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…

— Paul F. Knitter