Quotes about Answers

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

The prosperity we enjoy shapes both the questions we ask and the answers we embrace.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Indeed, the only truely serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truely serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set limits, describes the boundaries of human exsistence.

I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means i ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

It is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

Questions are allowed in the Kingdom, but lack of answers must not interrupt our heart-communion with God. If we demand answers from God, then we are walking in the spirit of offense.

Questions are allowed in the Kingdom, but lack of answers must not interrupt our heart-communion with God.

Trust means we always have questions that we don't have the answers to.

We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.