Harvey Cox

Not to decide is to decide.

— Harvey Cox

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone…

— Harvey Cox

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems.…

— Harvey Cox

“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all…

— Harvey Cox

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

— Harvey Cox

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely…

— Harvey Cox

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

— Harvey Cox

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever…

— Harvey Cox

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

— Harvey Cox

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

— Harvey Cox

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just…

— Harvey Cox

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

— Harvey Cox

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

— Harvey Cox

"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools…

— 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…

— Harvey Cox

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

— Harvey Cox

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

— Harvey Cox

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

— Harvey Cox

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America…

— Harvey Cox

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the…

— Harvey Cox

“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from…

— Harvey Cox

Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

— Harvey Cox

“As The Preacher in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes puts it: All words wear themselves out; a man cannot utter it; the…

— Harvey Cox

“If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular.”

— Harvey Cox