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Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question—you have to ...

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

It is quite common for Christians to experience doubts from time to time. Unfortunately, doubts about our Christian beliefs are often treated in the same way we would treat a common cold. We wait it o...

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer.

Good questions lead to better decisions. And better decisions lead to fewer regrets.

Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As th...

A friend once asked Isidor I. Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science, how he became a scientist. Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his school day. She wasn’t s...

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way.

One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

I would like to beg you… as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a fore...

If someone asked you what the two most important questions you could ask were, what would you answer? If you are God’s child, there may be no more important questions than these two: What in the world...

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from eac...

We structure our churches and maintain them so as to shield us from God and to protect us from genuine religious experience…The adult members of churches today rarely raise serious religious questions...

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Clouseau: Does your dog bite? Hotel Clerk: No. Clouseau: [bowing down to pet the dog] Nice doggie. [Dog barks and bites Clouseau on the hand] Clouseau: I thought you said your dog did not bite! H...

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

Recently I was watching a children’s television show on YouTube with my kids, when the host asked, “What is the meaning of Life?” His response was typical: “I don’t know,” but what he said next made m...

Silently lost in adoration within the dust before God is preparation for the ultimate answer to all questions: one’s becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus.

Honest doubts, then, are open to belief. If you are really asking for information and good arguments, you might get some.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

The root of our English term doubt has to do with duplicity. It is being divided or doubled up in our thinking. But this isn’t a matter of simply being confused or unable to make up our mind or ...

Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right question.