#answers

Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them. ↗

— Carolyn Custis James

#faith #faith

Questions that will free you might have answers that will imprison you again. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#freedom #questions #freedom

I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#life #life

There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world and interacted in the world and were with others. Everything. It was profound to me, amazing, the ramifications, the implications, the far-reaching impact that one’s beliefs could have on the world. It was actually mind-blowing for me. Figuratively speaking. Like, it was just, holy shit. Look at that. And nobody, hardly anybody sees it. They’re just ideas. Ideas. And yet, I’d believed them for so long, and still, was still shirking free of them. How was it that we believed in them, so readily, so easily? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-truths #spirituality #truth

Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers. ↗

— Adam P. Knave

#complex #life #simple #world #life

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

— Voltaire

#man #questions #thinking #man

What if you were always stuck in one place, your mind spinning and unable to go forward like tires clenched in mud, because the answers wouldn't reveal themselves to you? ↗

— Will Lavender

#mind #stuck #obedience

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certain #certainty #challenge #challenging #children

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#adventure #answers #any #close #home

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#future #grow #our #time #trust