Quotes About Questioning

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.

The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

The worst moment for the atheist is

She did not question God's supernatural power, but how to go about convincing God of her sincerity? Faith wasn't like a muscle that could be enlarged through rehabilitation exercises.

Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.

As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Believing there is no God does not make the thirst go away.

Perhaps the greatest way to give suffering people time is being patient with them — giving them room to doubt, cry, question and work out strong and often extreme emotions.

I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.

One little boy, and he a bastard,' Anne said thoughtfully. 'One little girl of six, one elderly Queen and a King in the prime of his life.' She looked up at the two of us, dragging her gaze away from her own pale face in the water. 'What's going to happen?' She asked. 'Something has to happen. What's it going to be?

Why not?' She asks the most challenging questions that a woman can ask. 'Why should I not read? Why should I not think? Why should I not speak?

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

He slowly unfolded it, cleared his throat, scratched his head, and said, "Would you rather go to the dentist or throw up?" Good grief , thought Caroline, as the minutes ticked by. How was he supposed to be her for a day if he didn't ask any better questions than that?

Will all this never end?" asked Mr. Hatford. "Why do I get the feeling that I don't even know half of all that's been going on around here?" "'Cause you don't, I guess," Wally mumbled.

Je n'aimais pas poser les questions qui poussaient mes interlocuteurs à se moquer en soupirant de notre crédulité d'Occidentaux survitaminés et sous-informés. (p. 18)

Do you seek to bribe Death?" Zane asked, half angry and two-thirds curious.

Nuts grow on trees?" the spider inquired dubiously.

What do you mean, he?

And such men, you know, before finding out in what way something they desire can exist, put that question aside so they won't grow weary deliberating about what's possible and not.

But what if there are no gods?

Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.

Philosophy begins in wonder. -Plato

El asombro es la sensación de un filósofo y la filosofía empieza con el asombro