Quotes about Answers

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Francis Schaeffer's Escape from Reason. To my great surprise and delight, that small book had answered questions I'd long before dismissed as unanswerable.

But humans are a curious species. We wonder, we seek answers. Living in this vast world that is by turns kind and cruel, and gazing at the immense heavens above, people have always asked a multitude of questions: How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a creator?

They (theological liberals) seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

No matter what we are going through, no matter how long the waiting for answers, of one thing we may be sure. God is faithful. He keeps His promises. What He starts, He finishes, including His perfect work in us.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance

The blessedness of waiting is lost on those who cannot wait, and the fulfillment of promise is never theirs. They want quick answers to the deepest questions of life and miss the value of those times of anxious waiting, seeking with patient uncertainties until the answers come. They lose the moment when the answers are revealed in dazzling clarity.