Frasi di Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox è un teologo, saggista ed ex domenicano statunitense.

✵ 21. Dicembre 1940

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Matthew Fox: Frasi in inglese

“The essence of our nature is to give birth, not to destroy. To create. We see this in the love of mother and child and in the love of artist for his or her art. The dilemma is that the very powers we possess for creativity can just as easily become employed to destroy with.”

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Matthew Fox (priest)

Creativity (New York: Penguin, 2002), ch. one.

“I am increasingly convinced that one of humankind's most grievous sins is our anthropocentrism. 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.”

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Matthew Fox (priest)

The Reinvention of Work (New York: Harper, 1994), p. 128.

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