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 (b. 1958), Bibellehrerin, Autorin
Source: Holding On to Hope: A Pathway Through Suffering to the Heart of God
Topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Faith & Trust, Hope & Confidence
Occasions: Comfort, Encouragement
Nancy Guthrie
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.
All quotes by Nancy Guthrie (19)
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
C.S. Lewis
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
Henri Nouwen
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Etty Hillesum
God writes straight even on crooked lines.
Paul Claudel
God lets us walk no path that he himself has not walked, and on which he does not go ahead of us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer