John B. Cobb Jr. Quotes

John B. Cobb Jr. The quotes below are attributed to John B. Cobb Jr., organized by topic.

John B. Cobb Jr. on God

Attributed to John B. Cobb Jr.:

“God is not the unmoved mover but the most moved mover, the perfection of relationship.”
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“Religious traditions are best engaged in mutual transformation, not in mutual conquest.”
“Jesus said that we could not serve both God and wealth, and it is obvious that Western society is organized in the service of wealth.”
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“Whereas traditional Christianity calls for the subordination of all other commitments to the commitment to God, Buddhism teaches us to give up all craving and attachment, just those aspects of the human psyche that ground economism.”
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Attributed to John B. Cobb Jr.:

“Whitehead has given us a metaphysics with which to think the world we are actually in.”

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“Process is not the rival of being; it is the form of being whenever being is alive.”
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“An economy that destroys its own ecological base is no economy at all.”
“Schumacher ... rightly saw that in the world today Buddhism is a more potent basis for resisting the economism that rules the West and through it most of the East.”
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“Economism is the view that the economy is the most important part of society and that the other dimensions such as politics and education should serve it. Economism has become the ruling ideology , not because of claims of economists, but because of the decisions of political leaders, financiers, corporate leaders, and the general public.”
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