Curiosity requires courage. You must be willing to ask questions even when they threaten everyone around you. Faith is more than believing; it is an act of courage, a bold grasping of God’s truth. Faith is a wrestling match with God, an intense struggle with truth in an attempt to squeeze every bit of knowledge out of it. Curiosity is the shape of our hunger for God. We question God without apology; we march into the presence of God bringing our armfuls of questions – without fear – because God is not afraid of them. People are afraid. Institutions are afraid. But God is not
Children are possessed with certain inalienable rights, and one of them is the right to ask questions anytime and anywhere. We have these same rights because we are the children of God. Let us ask our questions boldly, courageously, like a little child.
Michael Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder (NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 45.
Believing God exists is not the same as trusting the God who exists. A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping. (Genuine faith will be tested; false faith will be lost.)
If you base your faith on lack of affliction, your faith lives on the brink of extinction and will fall apart because of a frightening diagnosis or a shattering phone call. Token faith will not survive suffering, nor should it.
(NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO: 2003), 45. 
(Multnomah, Colorado Springs, CO: 2009), 12.