Harvey Cox famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Horse #Riding #May
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
-- Harvey Cox

#Stories #Needs #Live By
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
-- Harvey Cox

#Laughter #Laughing #Ends
"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

#Children #Healing #School
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
-- Harvey Cox

#Reality #Political #Politician
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

#Thinking #Intellectual #Tasks
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
-- Harvey Cox

#Real #Catholic #Church
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
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
-- Harvey Cox

#Religious #Responsibility #Men
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
-- Harvey Cox

#Lasts #Form #Forbidden
There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
-- Harvey Cox

#Jesus #Nazareth
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 are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
-- Harvey Cox

#Decision #Finals #Analysis
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

#Struggle #World #Comic

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