#questioning

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. ↗

— Criss Jami

#convincing #doubt #faith #honesty #inspiration

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#religion #life

I beg you, 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 very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#living #patience #questioning #truth #love

Leo wondered what unknown sin they must have committed in some previous life to deserve this. The answer came the same way their feet later shocked to life in the warming hut after being so numb for hours- you think you'll never feel your toes again, and then all of a sudden life, damaged, stiffened, clammy, but life, dog-eat-dog life! We have not done a single thing to deserve this. ↗

— Peter Orner

#perserverance #questioning #love

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#knowledge #muslims #questioning-religion #religion #religion

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#existing #important #important thing #own #questioning

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#different #different things #existence #go #i

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#itself #method #nature #observe #our

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#blockbuster #debating #film #i #maybe

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#between #ceaselessly #decisive #essence #evil