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

We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.

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

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

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.

We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for 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.