The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.

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

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

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.

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 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.