Quotes about Questioning
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
— Elie Wiesel
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
— Mortimer Adler
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.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
Man is incurably curious.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
— Albert Einstein
Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?
— Margaret Atwood
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
— Margaret Atwood
Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how
— Margaret Atwood
Certainty is missing the point entirely.
— Anne Lamott