Quote by Harvey Cox
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and

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

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In West Africa, when a person in the village becomes sick, the Healer will ask them, “When was the last time you sang? When was the last time that you danced? When was the last time that you shared a story?” – Harvey Cox

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

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. – George Bernard Shaw

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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. – Tom T. Hall

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Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. Its not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. – Michelle Bachelet

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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana

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