Daily Inspiration Quote by Peter Jennings

Jennings’ sentence has the careful, self-editing cadence of someone trained to speak under the hot lights of public trust. The repetition and midstream recalibration (“what or how strong or what are”) isn’t clumsiness so much as a live demonstration of restraint: he’s reaching for language that won’t sound like a conversion story, a brand, or a verdict. For a journalist whose authority depended on projecting steadiness, admitting uncertainty about God is both intimate and strategic. It keeps the door open to belief without alienating viewers who might hear certainty as either proselytizing or hypocrisy.

The key phrase is “gone through a period” - a containment unit. It suggests this is not a sudden revelation but a chapter, bounded and reflective, the way people talk about grief, illness, or midlife recalibration. That fits the late-20th-century public figure’s dilemma: spirituality is acceptable as a journey, less acceptable as a claim to truth. Jennings frames it as inquiry, not doctrine, protecting his credibility by aligning faith with the investigative posture that made him famous.

The subtext is that even the narrators of history, the ones who translate catastrophe into manageable nightly segments, eventually confront the story they can’t report out. “Connections” is tellingly plural and almost secular - less about dogma than about attachment, belonging, and moral orientation. He isn’t asking whether God exists; he’s asking what kind of relationship a modern, professionally skeptical person is permitted to have, and how much of that can be spoken aloud without breaking the spell of neutrality.