Quotes About Questioning

contrast, there are sixteen whys in the book of Job, according to author Don Baker.6 Sixteen times Job asked God why. He is persistent and petulant. He is accusatory toward God. And, as has been observed by many, God never answered Job's why. Instead He answered who.

asking a demanding why of God.

Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for

For us to trust God in times of adversity, we must believe in God's sovereignty, His love, and His wisdom. Of these three truths, the sovereignty of God seems to be questioned the most frequently and most stridently. It seems we will allow God to be anywhere except upon His throne ruling His universe according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will.

The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim.

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In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.

Qué me sucede?» se pregunta, mientras un suspiro se escapa de lo más profundo de su corazón.

I asked him if he had bothered to have children. He said yes, he had children. I said why if this is the result. He said I beg your pardon. I said if it leads to this, where you're a skin bag full of putrescent failing organs, and time passes quickly, it passes so quickly, and he knew that, then why have kids.

If you want to say, Lucia, there is no inside of the park benches, I won't argue with you. But, then you have to say where the pigeons come from.

Das Denken kann uns nur zur Erkenntnis führen, dass es selsbt uns die letzte Antwort nicht geben kann.

These are the outstanding questions that arise when we look at the human aspect of freedom, the longing for submission, and the lust for power: What is freedom as a human experience? Is the desire for freedom something inherent in human nature?

What is the goal of living? What is life's meaning for man? But is this really a meaningful question? Is there a reason for wanting to live, and would we rather not live if we had no such reason?

So I thought. Are you happy? What's that? Don't you know yet? But who really knows what it is? Dancing on the head of a pin, maybe.

Jaut?t otram noz?m? v?l joproj?m izvair?ties no izš?iroš? spieduma. Es gan ar? ?sten?b? negaid?ju atbildi no jums. B?t?b? esmu jaut?jis tikai pats sev. Bet dažbr?d to var izdar?t, tikai jaut?jot otram.

Ko ?e kazniti Boga zato što ?ini te patimo? Ovde kod ljudi, kad se to u?ini, do?e se u tamnicu ili bude obešen. Ko ?e obesiti Boga?

G?lm?kd? yax?? el?dim? – Joan soru?du. – Bilmir?m, Joan. – Bilirs?n... Bilm?lis?n!

All at once I feel utterly dejected. "What was the good of it all, Mother?" I say. She strokes my hand. "It must have been for some good, Ernst. The Father in heaven knows, you may be sure of that.

Was werden unsere Väter tun, wenn wir einmal aufstehen und vor sie hintreten und Rechenschaft fordern?

Kaži mi, Georg - pitam kad smo skrenuli u Hakenštrase, - Jesi li ti stvarno sre?an? Georg Krol skine šešir ne?emu nevidljvom u no?i. -Drugo pitanje! - kaže on. - Koliko se može izdržati sede?i na vrhu igle?

The self must be destroyed, brought down to nothing, in order for self-transcendence to begin. Then the self can begin to relate itself to powers beyond itself. It has to thrash around in its finitude, it has to die, in order to question that finitude, in order to see beyond it. To what? Kierkegaard answers: to infinitude, to absolute transcendence, the the Ultimate Power of Creation which made finite creatures.

Why, then, the reader may ask, add still another weighty tome to a useless overproduction?

What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing?

They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations.