Quotes About Questioning

Jeez Louise, this is why

Why doesn't he drop down dead? Was he sent by God to worry women?

De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.

Jean asked her sister, "Am I?" "Are you?" she asked back.

As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted regarding the suppression of the traditional Mass by Paul VI: "A community is calling its very being into question when it suddenly declares that what until now was its holiest and highest possession is strictly forbidden, and when it makes the longing for it seem downright indecent.

Christianity's such a weird religion. The image you're brought up with is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. Bill Hicks

since 'nothing can be begun with certainty, it's better we begin with doubt'.

I'm a man of no convictions. At least, I think I am.

Soll ich, weil's Brauch ist, ein Stück Eisen stecken in das nächste Fleisch oder ins übernächste, mich dran zu halten, weil die Welt sich dreht? Herr, brich mir das Genick im Sturz von einer Bierbank.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

I don't know which is right!

Why are you reading that book? Are you in doubt about something?

I wanted to ask her if she meant to spend the night here as well, but I didn't want her to say yes. It could be that she was in some kind of mood and just wanted a nap and my question might force her to adopt a stance. She does that, I've noticed; she lashes out when she thinks she's been given a cue.

These are thoughts that come to you while you spend however long you spend holding ice-packs to your eye, or tilting your head back against the wall to try to do something about the way your nose is bleeding, letting your mind work on the question: What reasons might somebody have for leaving her kid in the care of a man like Frank Novak?

I look suspiciously at the half-empty glass in my hand.

Personal transformation will occur if we are willing to question and examine every value we hold, and to be ready to see things differently. While reading this text, one will find his/ herself undertaking the challenge of recognizing the difference between beliefs that are rooted in fear and guilt, and those that incorporate love and forgiveness.

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

So your question, are we happy here? I say how can we be happy when we are mere wanderers without a home?

Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

We see the clouds of summer go and come, And thirsty verdure praying them to give: We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!" She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.

Y he ahí que en un momento supremo, de los labios del Dios hecho hombre, ascenderá este grito desesperado: «Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me has abandonado?». Como si Dios hecho hombre debiese experimentar la desesperación otrora infligida por sí mismo a su siervo Job.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

What have you done?