Quotes from Matthew Fox

life is short,"42 and we should drink deeply of its goodness while we can.

God loves all that he has created. And so anyone who, in loving God, loves all his fellow creatures loves all that is.

goodness surrounds us in the manifestation of all of nature but it also flows through us on a regular basis; it is Spirit at work in and through us.

In the first place, Hildegard calls for a marriage of science and spirituality. For religion and the secular sciences to be sundered as they currently are is a blunder of immense proportions on the part of our species—and with potentially dire consequences.

As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not "radical feminism," which the Vatican accuses Catholic sisters in America of, but "radical patriarchy.

Having learned to integrate her readings thoroughly into her own thinking and with years of contemplative study, she creates her own theology. She learns to trust her own experience

All are called to be prophets, which is to interfere with injustice.

Between God and creation there is no between—that is the message of panentheism, as well as the message of the Cosmic Christ, the Buddha Nature, and tselem, the image of God that Judaism preaches. Such an understanding offers a re-affirmation of the sacredness inherent in all beings.

Scientists now tell us that evolution has been supplanted on this planet by culture. Human culture moves at so rapid a pace that it has far outrun and outstripped the natural processes of change and adaptation. This

Fourteen billion years of evolution and unfolding of the universe bespeak the intimate sacredness of all that is.

in God's sight, all humanity is one person, and all people are a single humanity.

if your being is good your works will be good, and if your being is just your works will be just.

Standing by while global warming happens is killing the Christ. Ecocide is a form of killing Christ.

The sin of acedia is cutting ourselves off from the rest of the universe, cutting ourselves off from... really, the music of the universe... We cut ourselves off from that and we ourselves are listless and without music.

God the Creative Spirit, and intimate with others. To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This

T]he historical Jesus challenges Christians and others to move from second-hand religion, which is that based on the Bible and church doctrines, to first-hand religion, which is life centered in the Spirit and is experiential. In other words, from religious faith to spiritual practice.

Jesus's time, the dominant social vision was centered

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.