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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...

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

We all live in the world our questions create.

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...

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.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

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...

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

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

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.

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

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 t...

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 ...

It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.

If angels can fly because they take themselves lightly, does God take Himself lightly?

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

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

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...

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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

In a poignant tribute written after his son’s passing in a climbing accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff reflects: When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer he...

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...

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.

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

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

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...