Quotes from 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 has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

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.

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

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

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

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

Not to decide is to decide.

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

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.

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