Quotes about Questioning

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.

Man is incurably curious.

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

I wanted to ask why it had to be like this, but I already knew the answer: because it was God's plan. That was how the Aunts got out of everything

Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

Jesus was a rabbi, schooled by rabbis, who thought like rabbis. Rabbis, upon being asked a question by a disciple, usually answer with a paradoxical inquiry or a story. This can be annoying and time-consuming for those of us looking for neat, simple answers. But truth is too wild and complex to be contained in one answer, so Jesus often responded with a question or a parable.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.