147 Quotes by Matthew Fox

What happens to another, whether it be a joy or a sorrow, happens to me. – Meister Eckhart.

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

Today’s Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there’s only one river.

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.

Who is this woman who preached of the “web of life” that all creation shares, but who warned that “the earth must not be injured, the earth must not be destroyed” – and that if humans misuse creation, “God will permit creation to punish humanity”?

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons – but they’re not out there.

I am a Westerner. We’re not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it’s like a mirror, saying, hey, can’t you see what’s here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?

The doctrine of the Incarnation is itself an invitation to all believers to love the earth, cherish it, find the divine in it.