5 Quotes & Sayings By Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox is one of America's leading religious thinkers. He teaches at Harvard Divinity School and is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling The Secular City, which describes how churches can recapture their social mission. In addition to these books, he has written three volumes of poetry, a novel, and several historical works. His most recent work is The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in America.

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Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness Harvey Cox
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The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it. Harvey Cox
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Not to decide is to decide. Harvey Cox
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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