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.

Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts to convey the multiplicity of ways in which the creation witnesses to its Creator: it is like a visible garment, which the invisible God dons in order to make himself known; it is like a book in which the name on the Creator is written as its author; it is like a theater, in which the glory of God is publicly displayed; it is like a mirror, in which the works and wisdom of God are reflected.

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.

Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

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