Let me ask you a question ...

I have spent most of my life asking questions, trying to find out the answers to everything! I've especially wanted to know the answers to the big questions in life ... but then I began to wonder - what ARE the big questions? That led me to analyze, obsess, rehash, and evaluate as I am wont to do when an idea or question is bugging me. When I didn't find the solution, I began a quest of collecting quotes about questions and answers. Strange collection, I know, but these quotes often say what I've been trying to put into words but haven't been able to phrase. Some really big thinkers in both distant and recent history have had something to say on this topic. Some of these quotes are from books I've read, some are gathered from the internet and other sources. I don't know who all of the authors are but I still like what they have to say. There's one in the list that cracks me up (can you figure out which one?) and one that at first made me so mad I could spit (but as I think about it ... it may be accurate). I left the one that is mine until the end. That one sums up where I'm at today when it comes to questions.

• Answers are usually easier than we want to think. It's the questions that tear a person apart. Deborah Smith, Stone Flower Garden
• I think everyone has "the answer' they need from God, But I don't think everybody has the same questions. Lisa Samson, Straight Up
• When things are good we have no questions and when things are bad we have no answers. Unknown
• We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Judge a man by his questions rather than than his answers. Voltaire
• There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourse of men. John Locke
• You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. Richard Bach
• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
• We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong. Bono
• It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber
• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke 
• Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions. Jerry Falwell
• When we get to heaven, I don't think we'll have all the answers but I think we'll finally know the right questions. Me!

Here's how I see it ... I think heaven will be boring if I know the answers to EVERYTHING upon arrival. I love to learn and research and read and inquire so I think I will have the opportunity to do that in heaven. But instead of wasting my time with inane and inconsequential questions, I'll finally know what really matters and so I'll know the right questions to explore. I don't think heaven will be the same for all of us, so don't worry, you might know it all when you get there.