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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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

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 ...

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...

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.

The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultima...

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

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

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

“Why” and ""how"" are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

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

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

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

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

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

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

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...

In his book, Soul Keeping, pastor John Ortberg describes his mentorship by Dallas Willard early in his ministry. The following vignette occurred while Willard was teaching a philosphy course at the Un...

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.