147 Quotes by Matthew Fox

Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God’s sword would smite him? Who is this woman.

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 is true whether we understand our creativity to be begetting and nourishing our children, making music, doing theater, gardening, writing, teaching, running a business, painting, constructing houses, or sharing the healing arts of medicine and therapy.

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. “God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge,” says Eckhart.

I’ll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

God is voluptuous and delicious. – Meister Eckhart.

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

Creation is all space, all time – all things past, present, and future.

The letting go of patriarchy which creates one-sided citizens of women and men alike and culminates in violent living and violent relationships.

I think that there’s a hidden darkness in all of us!