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Quotes about Questioning

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.
— Ravi Zacharias
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Doubt tears down the castle walls we have built, with the false security and permanence they give, and forces us outside to walk a lonely, trying, yet cleansing road. In those times, it definitely feels like God is against us, far away, or absent altogether. But what if the darkness is actually a moment of God's presence that seems like absence, a gift of God
— Peter Enns
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree. "I reckon
— William Faulkner
My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
— Genesis 44:19
How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers end up in furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine altar?
— Elie Wiesel
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
— Robert Frost
A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims truths.
— Milan Kundera
You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
— Malachi 3:14
So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
— John 8:22
Doubts can produce positive side-effects - if you work toward resolving them.
— Lee Strobel