We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

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

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

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.

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.