Mostly What God Does Is Love You Quotes

“Sometimes faith is simply choosing to live. Choosing to coexist with questions for which there will never be a satisfying explanation. Not in this life anyway.”
― Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does Is Love You

“I have a hard time believing God outright causes evil and suffering. It isn’t consistent with the God I know. But at the same time, we face an excruciating and undeniable fact: sometimes, he allows it. And if he allows suffering, when he could stop it, what’s the difference? It might as well be him causing it. I don’t like this truth, but I can’t run from it, or sugar coat it. If we really believe in an all powerful God, one with supernatural sovereignty over time and space, then we must believe he possesses the power to protect us, and shield us from harm. And sometimes doesn’t use it. Why? This is the ultimate “why God?” for me. The ultimate threat to my faith. I can imagine no greater challenge to our belief than when something devastating happens to us, or even worse, someone we love.”
― Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does Is Love You

“God does not cause evil and suffering. But he can transform it. This is a phenomenally fine distinction, but one that matters. We live in a broken world. A world of accidents, unfairness, and sickness. A world of plane crashes and child abuse. A world of lying and manipulation and shallowness. A world that sometimes seems setup for the wicked to prosper, as Job 21:7 says. This is not the world God intended, or one that he will allow to persist forever. But while we are here, while he is working out a cosmic rescue and reconciliation that is far beyond our understanding, he promises to be present with us. He promises to make good out of bad. He promises to transform what is wrong, into something that is right. And that is an act of God.”
― Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does Is Love You

“Mostly what God does is love you. To believe this about God is the essence of faith. Giving God the benefit of the doubt in a world that invites cynicism and despair. I’ve always felt believing in God isn’t really the hard part. Believing he is good and actively engaged in our lives and the world in the face of so much pain, that’s the hard part. God does not require us to ignore, or gloss over the sorrows we experience or the unjustness we see, but to believe past them. Believe that he is on the case, that his intentions toward us are good, that he is ever inclined toward forgiveness, and reconciliation. That the pains of this world are not his original plan, and will not be how the story ends. This is faith.”
― Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does Is Love You

“When people sometimes ask me how "I got here," I have to smile. It was a zigzagging, dotted, sometimes broken line, with pauses and detours and disasters. Beginnings that ended too soon. Endings that turned out to be beginnings.”
― Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does Is Love You