Matthew Fox Quotes

• Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Courage

• 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.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Wonderfully, Learn, Like, Notice, Look

• 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.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Angel, Evil, Just

• Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Beautiful, Judgment

• When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disappear, Point, Human

• A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Job, Work

  Tags in Times, Something

• To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Creation

  Tags in Tradition, Possibilities, People, Study

• Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales – the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Creation, Nature

  Tags in Relationships

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

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Connect, Great, Need

• 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?

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Religion, Stupid

  Tags in Change, Like

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

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Creation, Future, Past

  Tags in Time, Present

• I don’t think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that’s Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They’re telling you to give them your money otherwise you’re going to hell.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Fear, Money

  Tags in Think

• Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Heart

• We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.

  Matthew Fox

• 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.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Beauty

• Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.

  Matthew Fox

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Compassion

Matthew Fox (16)

Birth:	14th July, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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