Quotes About Ultimate Questions

#1. But I did feel, and passionately, that it wasn't fair of God to give us brains enough to ask the ultimate questions if he didn't intend to teach us the answers.

Madeleine L'Engle

#2. Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.

Pope John Paul II

#3. Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

Matthew Scully

#4. During his interviews, he was unable to find essential answers to his ultimate questions: 1. What is man? 2. How should man live?

Nathan Bellow

#5. Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

Alexander Eliot

#6. Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

Stephen Covey

#7. It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

John Osborne

#8. Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

Nicola Cabibbo

#9. Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

Paul Davies

#10. Therapists. Always asking the same questions over and over in slightly different ways. They are, like, the Ultimate Thesauruses.

Corey Ann Haydu

#11. To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Admire the United
States not for what we were but for what we might become. Self-governing
democracy was not an established creed, but a program for growth.

John Dos Passos

#13. The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

Bryant H. McGill

#14. I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.

Michael Sheen

#15. The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

Billy Graham

#16. Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.

Brandon Cox

#17. All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.

G. B. Caird

#18. If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

Chris Hardwick

#19. What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.

Tony Robbins

#20. At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

Kedar Joshi

#21. 'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.

Carlton Cuse

#22. To console the girl for the loss of her feathered friend.

L. Frank Baum

#23. asserting the ultimate authority of Scripture is the easy part; working out what the Scriptures actually teach on complex theological questions is what is difficult.

Kevin Giles

#24. The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.

Dale Rex Coman

#25. Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.

Lesslie Newbigin

#26. With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

C.S. Lewis

#27. Wisdom begins at the end.

Daniel Webster

#28. Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

Samuel Johnson

#29. Aberdeenshire's Peterhead jail housed the hardest, badest, meanest motherfucker prisoners in the Scottish prison system. So no one was surprised when the pressure pot jail finally erupted in to violence that has not been seen or equalled since.

Stephen Richards

#30. I'm in love with someone, & none of it will go away.The memories bombard me every day.The dreams haunt me every night.

Holly Chamberlin

#31. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.

T.F. Hodge