The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

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.

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

Good does not triumph unless good people rise to the challenges around them.