Quotes about Questioning

Moses asked God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" Exodus 3:11

Who are you— anyone who talks back to God? Romans 9:20

In order to accuse Him, they asked Him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:10

To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.

Faced with our imminent extinction, Tom Laughlin believes, all assumptions are called into question.

A Jew asks over and over, "What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?

The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of my life?

We look at our own problems, and we say... why? Maybe we should look at our blessings and ask the same thing.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

From the ghetto to the mansion, from community leader to prisoner on death row, man wonders if there is a God. And if there is, what is He like? Whatever period of history we study, whatever culture we examine, if we look back in time we see all peoples, primitive or modern, acknowledging some kind of deity. Some people give up the pursuit of God in frustration, calling themselves "atheists" or "agnostics," professing to be irreligious.

We read every day about the rich, the famous, the talented who are disillusioned. Many of them are turning to the occult, or Transcendental Meditation, or Eastern religions. Some are turning to crime. The questions they thought were answered are left dangling: What is man? Where did he come from? What is his purpose on this planet? Where is he going? Is there a God who cares? If there is a God, has He revealed Himself to man?