Quotes About Questioning

You don't believe in Him, do you?' 'No.' 'Things to me wouldn't make sense without Him.' 'They don't make sense to me with him.

face a little smudged with tears. She asked, 'Was it

Where?' Milly asked, looking politely up from the Horse-woman's Year Book. It was the evening hour when work was over and the last gold light lay flat across the roofs and touched the honey-coloured hair and the whisky in his glass.

I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.

if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

In his quieter, darker moments, Lemuel would often wonder if the Imperium was really as enlightened as it claimed.

Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Did you really shoot JFK? I didn't think chimpanzees lived that long. Dmitri-9: Stupid, imperialist bouffant? Ugly face? That shit was asking for it!

As the late John Keel said, "To hell with the answer. What is the question?"     Alien

From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury Today, noon, a young macho friendly waiter and three diners, business types—two males, one female— are in a quandary about the name of the duck paddling Otter Creek, the duck being brown, but too large to be a female mallard. They really want to know, and I'm the human-watcher behind the nook of my table, camouflaged by my stillness and nonchalant plumage. They really want to know. This sighting I record in the back of my Field Guide to People.

elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?

her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of

Jesus asked, "But what about you? … Who do you say I am?" (Matt. 16:15 NIV).

He began to wonder if there was something wrong with him.

How did we get here?' Sophie asks. 'We drove our cars,' I say, teasing. She makes a face and signals for more wine. 'Funny,' she says. 'I mean to this place in our lives when everything seems so perfect but isn't?

horrible scenes with me before and seemed okay. I would ask him, but I don't want to see another

The more slender your grip on reality, the more dangerous the world becomes. On the other hand, the more rational the world you find yourself in, the more carefully it must be questioned.

It's funny, everyone seems to ask me that in the last few days.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

I think some people feel that if you question the reality of race, you're questioning racism; you're saying racism isn't real. Racism is real because people actually believe race is real. We'd have to really let go of the 500-year-old idea of race as a worldview in order to undo racism.

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

People worry that gas prices are high and how they are affecting their pocket book. But they want to know about renewable energy. People are really starting to question things, and that's made people look to the future in a positive way.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.