Books Quote by 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 else decide…

— 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…

— Harvey Cox

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

— 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 essential feature…

— 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 else it…

— 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 world.

— Harvey Cox

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

— Harvey Cox