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

If there is no ultimate reality, it's pointless to think about how we might get there.

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

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.

Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.

The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.

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.