Top 70 Matthew Fox Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.”

— Matthew Fox

2. “When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the ‘sacred marriage’ of compassion and passion in ourselves.”

— Matthew Fox

3. “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

4. “Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.”

— Matthew Fox

5. “The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.”

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6. “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.”

— Matthew Fox

7. “Work should be in order to live. We don’t live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.”

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8. “The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.”

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9. “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

10. “The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.”

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11. “A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.”

— Matthew Fox

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

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13. “Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.”

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14. “It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.”

— Matthew Fox

17. “To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.”

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18. “There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.”

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19. “By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.”

— Matthew Fox

20. “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

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

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22. “Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.”

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

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24. “Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.”

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25. “I’m really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road – I’m looking forward to discovering that.”

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26. “Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “Is any place more intimate than the place where we create? Where we co-create with the Spirit of God and the Spirit of largesse that inspires our souls where we love? Where we make love? Where we love others through serving them with our labor? Where we love our children? Where we paint our truth? Where we dance our dance? Where we speak our words? Where we work? Where we utter our poetry? The.”

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29. “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

30. “From suffering I have learned this: That whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embrace the very same love which wounded her. – Mechtild of Magdeburg.”

— Matthew Fox

31. “We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.”

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32. “We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.”

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33. “Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.”

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34. “Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is... the potter.”

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35. “Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.”

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36. “I think that there’s a hidden darkness in all of us!”

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37. “God is voluptuous and delicious. – Meister Eckhart.”

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38. “What do we do with chaos? Creativity has an answer. We are told by those who have studied the processes of nature that creativity happens at the border between chaos and order. Chaos is a prelude to creativity. We need to learn, as every artist needs to learn, to.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “I didn’t learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.”

— Matthew Fox

41. “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.”

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42. “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.”

— Matthew Fox

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

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

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45. “I’m sorry, but I can’t make a movie with the blonde from ‘ER’ who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.”

— Matthew Fox

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

— Matthew Fox

47. “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

48. “Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.”

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49. “Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It’s unavoidable.”

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50. “I’m not saying I want a film career because I think I’m too good for television. I’m simply saying I want more control over my life.”

— Matthew Fox