“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness” — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
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… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
