All the important things in life lie beyond reason... and that's just the way things are.

Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.

Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.