Elijah

“I believe I have discovered something that I suspect characterizes religious experience in whatever tradition or historical context: the more deeply one enters into the core experience that animates one’s own tradition, the more broadly one is enabled and perhaps moved to enter into the experiences of other traditions. The more deeply one sinks into one’s own religious truth, the more broadly one can appreciate and learn from other truths.”
― Paul F. Knitter, Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
― Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

“when, in our contemporary idiom, “talking” about compassion becomes more important than “walking” in compassion – then words show their ever-lurking danger.”
― Paul F. Knitter, Without Buddha I Could Not be a Christian

“And, indeed, in the world little dictators rule with an iron hand: Herod, Philip, Statius Quartus, the Caesar. With boundless arrogance they walk over the people of God. With one stroke of the pen they cause thousands to disappear or die or both; masters of torture do their dirty work for them in dark and dismal cellars while above, in the beautiful halls, they strut to festive music and exchange civilized pleasantries. But the church knows that even as this happens “forever is King our Lord Jesus Christ.” This was true then as it is true now. Nothing is more disturbing for the oppressor than this. Nothing is more comforting for the faithful.”
― Allan Boesak, Comfort and Protest: Reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos