--- title: "1 God Laughs Quotes By Harvey Cox" description: "1 God Laughs quotes by Harvey Cox. Plus more from Harvey Cox and more God Laughs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/harvey-cox-24811_ends_god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-ho_2115787.png" --- > [God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-how-it-all-turns-out-in-the-end/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/harvey-cox-24811_ends_god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-ho_2115787.png) ## More by Harvey Cox > [Not to decide is to decide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/not-to-decide-is-to-decide/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/somewhere-deep-down-we-know-that-in-the-final-analysis-we-do-decide/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/secularism-is-not-only-indifferent-to-alternative-religious-systems/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/the-values-we-rightly-associate-with-the-modern-age-the-liberty/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/there-has-never-been-a-better-raconteur-than-jesus-of-nazareth/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/it-is-always-the-task-of-the-intellectual-to-think-otherwise-this-is/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/sermons-remain-one-of-the-last-forms-of-public-discourse-where-it-is/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/all-human-beings-have-an-innate-need-to-hear-and-tell-stories-and-to/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/all-human-beings-have-an-innate-need-to-hear-and-tell-stories-and-to-2/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/what-we-are-seeking-so-frantically-elsewhere-may-turn-out-to-be-the/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/the-comic-more-than-the-tragic-because-it-ignites-hope-leads-to-more/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/the-real-ecumenical-crisis-today-is-not-between-catholics-and/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-how-it-all-turns-out-in-the-end/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > ["Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/religion-can-no-more-be-equated-with-what-goes-on-in-churches-than/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) > [We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/we-now-live-in-a-post-christian-america-the-judeo-christian-ethic-no/) [Harvey Cox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harvey-cox/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-laughs/harvey-cox/#itemlist", "name": "1 God Laughs Quotes By Harvey Cox", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Harvey Cox" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harvey-cox/god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-how-it-all-turns-out-in-the-end/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/harvey-cox-24811_ends_god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-ho_2115787.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/harvey-cox-24811_ends_god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-ho_2115787.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/harvey-cox-24811_ends_god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-ho_2115787.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.” — Harvey Cox", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-laughs/harvey-cox/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-laughs/harvey-cox/", "name": "God Laughs Quotes by Harvey Cox", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/god-laughs/harvey-cox/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/harvey-cox-24811_ends_god-laughs-it-seems-because-god-knows-ho_2115787.png" }, "description": "1 God Laughs quotes by Harvey Cox. 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