Quotes About Questions

Others follow medical instructions to the letter, yet never ask questions of their doctors nor provide any feedback to them. The latter group may get a handle on their blood sugar levels, but are so miserable it hardly matters.

Questions that are designed to change other people are the wrong questions. Wrong, not because they don't matter or are based on ill intent, but because they reinforce the problem-solving model. They are questions that are the cause of the very thing we are trying to shift: the fragmented and retributive nature of our communities.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Rather than being quick to settle on final answers to puzzling questions, a trust-centered faith will find time to formulate wise questions that respect the mystery of God and call upon God for the courage to sit in those questions for as long as necessary before seeking a way forward.

I definitely get where these questions are coming from, and remember: I don't think "knowing" or seeking to think "correctly" about God is wrong. Not at all. The problem is preoccupation with correct thinking—mistaking our thoughts about God with the real thing, and then to base our faith on holding on to that certainty.

Maybe the Bible isn't God's owner's manual for us that answers all our questions about God and lays a script out for us to follow as we walk along the Christian path.

Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.

He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ëTo whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?í

a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his masterís house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”

They replied, “The man questioned us in detail about ourselves and our family: ëIs your father still alive? Do you have another brother?í And we answered him accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ëBring your brother hereí?”

My lord asked his servants, ëDo you have a father or a brother?í

“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.

When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who exactly will be going?”

When your children ask you, ëWhat does this service mean to you?í

to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ëWhat do these stones mean to you?í

Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ëWhat is the meaning of these stones?í

“We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”

And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”