Quotes About Questioning Why Things Happen

#1. I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable. - Author: George Pattison

#2. Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character? - Author: Samantha Harvey

#3. In the moment of hardship, we ask why some things happen. In those moments of suffering, questioning prayers that do not ask for explanations but beg the Lord to accompany us are the most useful - Author: Pope Francis

#4. There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us. - Author: Agatha Christie

#5. At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education. - Author: Paul Hoffman

#6. At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge. - Author: James W. Loewen

#7. I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with
him. - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#8. Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm. - Author: Gloria Steinem

#9. God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might - Author: Elmore Leonard

#10. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#11. Madam, my father has left me flopping like a flounder at low tide and you say what's the matter. - Author: Harper Lee

#12. I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does. - Author: Jennifer Donnelly

#13. Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind ... - Author: Haile Selassie

#14. The world was healing itself. - Author: Anthony Horowitz

#15. If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too. - Author: Elizabeth Olsen

#16. The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may love him also for the sweetness of his person; so the soul first loves Christ for salvation but when she is brought to Him and finds what sweetness there is in Him then she loves Him for Himself. - Author: Richard Sibbes

#17. If those birds hadn't been so stupid, so incapable of learning that human beings were dangerous, the first settlers would almost certainly have starved to death. - Author: Kurt Vonnegut