Quotes by Nancy Guthrie

Nancy Guthrie (b. 1958) — Bibellehrerin, Autorin · Evangelikal · USA

Nancy Guthrie ist eine US-amerikanische Autorin und Bibellehrerin, die im reformiert-evangelikalen Umfeld sowie im Netzwerk The Gospel Coalition wirkt. Sie steht für eine ganzheitliche, auf Christus ausgerichtete Heilsgeschichte und setzt sich für theologische Schulungen von Frauen sowie seelsorgerliche Angebote für Trauernde ein. Bibellesern bietet sie einen Zugang zur biblischen Theologie, der exegetische Genauigkeit mit der praktischen Auseinandersetzung mit persönlichem Leid verbindet.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Faith & Trust, Grief & Comfort, Prayer & Silence, Hope & Confidence, Humility & Pride, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Discipleship

Quotes by Nancy Guthrie

Some people seem to want to rush me through my sadness. They want to fix me. But I lost someone I loved dearly, and I'm sad.
Nancy Guthrie

The first lesson I learned from Job was that tears do not reflect a lack of faith.
Nancy Guthrie

Our culture wants to put the Band-Aid of heaven on the hurt of losing someone we love to death.
Nancy Guthrie

It often feels like we are carrying this enormous load of sorrow, and when others shed their tears with me, it is like they are taking a bucket full of sadness and carrying it for me.
Nancy Guthrie

God gives, and God takes away. But, let's be honest. We just want him to give, don't we?
Nancy Guthrie

When you lose someone you love, heaven becomes much more of a reality, much more than a theological concept or theatrical cliché.
Nancy Guthrie

Instead of urging them to pray away their suffering, I want to encourage them to look for God in the midst of it.
Nancy Guthrie

He will bring you from the darkness into the light, so look for him in the darkness.
Nancy Guthrie

God wants to use the difficulties in your life not to punish you or to hurt you, but to draw you to himself.
Nancy Guthrie

Worship is not made easier, but it becomes all-the-more meaningful when offered from a heart that is hurting.
Nancy Guthrie

Okay, if I have to go through this, then give me everything. Teach me everything you want to teach me through this. Don't let this incredible pain be wasted in my life!
Nancy Guthrie

We worship because he is worthy, not because we necessarily feel like it.
Nancy Guthrie

In today's modern world, we expect a cure for every illness, a replacement for every loss, a fix for every failure. We are shocked and shaken when hardship comes our way.
Nancy Guthrie

It is when we are hurting the most that we run to God.
Nancy Guthrie

Isn't real faith revealed more through pursuing God and what He wants than by pursuing what I want?
Nancy Guthrie

The fear of God holds our tongue when we want to accuse God of wrongdoing, it halts our finger-wagging in defiance, it humbles us in the midst of our self-righteous anger.
Nancy Guthrie

Have you ever noticed that people who suffer are marked with a beauty, a deepening, a transformation?
Nancy Guthrie

The truth is, everything we have is a gift.
Nancy Guthrie

The world tells us to run from suffering, to avoid it at all costs, to cry out to heaven to take it away. Few of us would choose to suffer. Yet when we know that God has allowed suffering into our lives for a purpose, instead of running from it, we can embrace it, and look around for God in it.
Nancy Guthrie

Sources: downlineministries.com, thegospelcoalition.org, nancyguthrie.com

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