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“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Shows Problem Answers Tasks Perceive

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.”

“Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.”

Ifs Littles Culture Force Answers Modern Bears Tasks Doctrine Addresses Biblical Resemblance Modern Culture

Author:Albert Mohler

“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”

God Christian Religion Causes Easy Religious Answers Wonder Christianity Lord Knowledge Mystery Objects Tasks Christian Inspirational Questioning Bishops Easy Answers

Book:The Orthodox Way

Source: The Orthodox Way

“Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.”

Years Persons Answers Atheism Years Ago Tasks Positive Atheism Ignorant

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.”

Men May Universe Answers Wise Calling Tasks Endure Oneself Solve Intellect Hardest Witness

Book:Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.”

Ifs World Way Needs Found Challenges Answers Poor Effort Business Politician Approach Conscious Tasks Vote Profit Finished Changing The World

Author:Bill Gates

“I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.”

Thinking Believe Said Moving I Believe Social Prayer Answers Responsibility Poet Capacity Tasks Mirrors Injustice Social Injustice

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes

“God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.”

Answers Duty Blessing Tasks Obedience Enjoyment Right Answers

Author:George Hodges (theologian)