147 Quotes by Matthew Fox

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky

When I pounded ninety-five theses at the Wittenberg doors in 2005 shortly after Ratzinger was made pope, I did so knowing that this man and his minions were a dangerous team to turn the church over to.

[M]ysticism is the awe with which we respond to existence and creation when we learn not to take it for granted.

[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.

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.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.