“The knowledge of the Church doesn't come from knowing, it comes from living with Jesus. The Gospel is alive.”
Source: For Retiring Bishop Iriondo, ‘Gospel Is Alive’ And To Be Shared https://www.cny.org/stories/for-retiring-bishop-iriondo-gospel-is-alive-and-to-be-shared,10602 (6 February 2014)
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Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
Context: No one sees it yet, but they will soon enough. The Chairman of the Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods has just been shot down in his own classroom.
Now he is speechless. He can't think of a word to say. The silence which so built his image at the beginning of the class is now destroying it. He doesn't understand from where the shot has come. He has never confronted a living Sophist. Only dead ones.
“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”
Source: Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell
Statement co-authored with Joseph Fort Newton and Charles E. Jefferson, edited by Charles Steltzle, as quoted in The American Scrap Book (1928), p. 15; also in Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches (1930), p. 85
“Well you say that it's gospel,
But I know that it's only church.”
Source: The Nation and the Kingdom (1909), pp. 10-11 http://books.google.com/books?id=MSg3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10