Quotes about Questioning
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
- John Ortberg
The student is to read history actively not passively.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend asked the author,If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?
- Ravi Zacharias
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
Philosopher William Lane Craig reminds us that an infinite regress of causes is like trying to jump out of a bottomless pit. How do you start if you never reach the bottom? On the other hand, one might well ask, if every birth is a rebirth, what kamma was paid for in his first birth?
- Ravi Zacharias
More often than not religious rites are performed out of fear or superstition. And they are seldom questioned or examined.
- Ravi Zacharias
When we come to know our Creator, the questioning is not for doubting but for putting it all together and marveling at His wonders.
- Ravi Zacharias
If the church didn't place true value on a person's questioning, then we were effectively absolving ourselves of any responsibility to that person.
- Ravi Zacharias
What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning. . . . Our need for specific answers is dissolved in the greater issue of the lordship of Christ over all questions —those that have answers and those that don't.2 A heart
- Ravi Zacharias
Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.
- Ravi Zacharias