Quotes about Questioning

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Faith does not grow in a house of certainty.

Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the "death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God."1

Theologian Lesslie Newbigin writes that we live in an age that favors doubt over faith.4 We often speak of "blind faith" and "honest doubt.

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

if someone ever asks you, "Do you believe in evolution?" you should ask that person, "What do you mean by evolution? Do you mean micro- or macroevolution?" Microevolution has been observed; but it cannot be used as evidence for macroevolution, which has never been observed.

my daughter at about six years of age asked me the question, "Why do we speak of the good Lord?" Whereupon I said, "Some weeks ago, you were suffering from measles, and then the good Lord sent you full recovery." However, the little girl was not content; she retorted, "Well, but please, Daddy, do not forget: in the first place, he had sent me the measles.

Here are the dead poets, still musing, still pondering, still questioning the meaning of existence.

What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.

How could any Lord have made this world? she asked. With her mind she had always seized the fact that there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor.