God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end. Harvey Cox More Quotes by Harvey Cox More Quotes From Harvey Cox All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . Harvey Cox storytelling stories needs What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. Harvey Cox riding horse may Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous. Harvey Cox finals analysis decision "Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches. Harvey Cox healing children school 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 social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable. Harvey Cox religious christian america Not to decide is to decide. Harvey Cox choices The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. Harvey Cox politician political reality Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system. Harvey Cox alternatives religious christian Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power. Harvey Cox responsibility religious men The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life. Harvey Cox catholic church real Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. Harvey Cox forbidden form lasts 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 comic struggle world Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture. Harvey Cox religious christian meaningful It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society. Harvey Cox essentials intellectual thinking Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between. Harvey Cox christian europe america There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth. Harvey Cox nazareth surprising jesus Your reach should always exceed your grasp. Harvey Cox exceed should I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating. Harvey Cox religious self christian All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. Harvey Cox
