QotM

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

--attributed to Václav Havel

"Think of the Hebrew word for question, she'elah," he [Elie Wiesel] continued. "There is 'el (God) in she'elah. God is in the question. But to give the answer? Keep asking the question."

Is this not also the lesson of the book of Job? Job's friends are trying to answer for God against Job's accusations, but they are ultimately scolded because they did not "speak rightly" to or about God. Job, after all, is the only one who has insisted on maintaining his questions against all answers.

--from Timothy Beal's book The Rise and Fall of the Bible

Spinning around in a spiraling circle
Upwards and upwards, not reaching the top
Higher and higher, the path keeps ascending
But somewhere the circle stops.

--from Sheila Chandra's song "Question the Answer"