Quotes About Questioning

So crows must spend a lot of the day wondering what they are supposed to do now, what they are here for, and that seemed like a cruel existential dilemma for anyone who didn't have TV.

They could hear again the gathering whispers, the swooshes and squeals, the cracks, almost as if the fire were questioning its own intentions and the woods were answering: 'We have been waiting for you our whole lives.

Curiosity is an impure thought

So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ëWhat is the matter with you?í”

“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,

So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ëWhat are You doing?í

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

Who set the wild donkey free? Who released the swift donkey from the harness?

“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

You said, ëListen now, and I will speak. I will question you, and you shall inform Me.í

Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?í”

Woe to him who says to his father, ëWhat have you begotten?í or to his mother, ëWhat have you brought forth?í”

Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?

When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ëWhy has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?í

Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

“Do you not know what they are?” replied the angel. “No, my lord,” I answered.