Quotes on Answers

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.

If you want the answer to anything, go sit in Nature for awhile

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

Suppose no one asked a question. _x000D_ What would the answer be?

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

Nature will never confront you with a problem you can't solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.

People can call you many different things, but you are not what people call you. You are what you answer to.

The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.

ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

Whatever the question, love is the answer.

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

If someone asks, _x000D_ But what is Love? _x000D_ Answer, _x000D_ Dissolving the will.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

I think that we come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. Raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

Politicians throughout history have tried to solve every problem conceivable to man, always failing to recognize that many of the problems we face result from previous so-called political solutions. Government cannot be the answer to every human ill. Continuing to view more government as the solution to problems will only make matters worse.

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.