Quotes about Question

Now comes the mystery.

Do cats eat bats?… Do bats eat cats?

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

Instead, it's a change in our response to the Question, and being true to the insight means being open to how it revises the whole.

Life is an everlasting question-mark! That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our power to DESIRE! And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

All theology is a kind of birthday Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient…

It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

A child in a Christian school class asked her teacher, "How could anybody create everything in six days from nothing?" Another very discerning young student blurted out, "But God is not just anybody !

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.