Harvey Cox Quotes

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

I believe religion is important for every person.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

The institution of religion is important.

If you take a cold, blunt view of most religions, and you sort of say, 'Well, here's the basis for it,' most of them sound crazy. It's the belief that makes them real. I was interested in that question: When does a belief become a myth? When does something you believe in become just a story?

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.