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Faith & Spirit Quote by Savannah Guthrie

"Faith is what makes life meaningful, and when you have to choose between faith and fear, choose faith"

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Guthrie frames belief less as doctrine than as a daily operating system: the thing that turns chaos into something you can walk through without collapsing. Coming from a broadcast journalist who lives inside the churn of breaking news, this line reads like a coping strategy forged in public view. When your job is to narrate uncertainty - elections, disasters, culture wars - you can either let the atmosphere of dread set your internal weather, or you can choose a steadier story about who you are and what tomorrow is for.

The sentence is built to feel like a moral reflex. "Faith" arrives first, as meaning itself, then "fear" enters as the rival emotion that tries to hijack the plot. The phrase "have to choose" is the sleight of hand: it collapses complexity into a binary, which is exactly why it works. Fear thrives in ambiguity and endless scenarios; faith, in Guthrie's framing, is an act of editing. You pick a narrative that’s coherent enough to live by.

Subtextually, it’s also a gentle rebuttal to the modern prestige of anxiety. Our era treats fear as sophistication - proof you’re paying attention. Guthrie offers a different status symbol: courage that doesn’t require certainty. The line’s soft imperative ("choose faith") sidesteps partisan religion wars while still sounding spiritually anchored. It’s motivational, yes, but it’s also media-literate: a reminder that what you consume and what you believe are competing scripts, and you don’t have to let the darkest one win.

Quote Details

TopicFaith
SourceMostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere (2024), Savannah Guthrie
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Guthrie, Savannah. (2026, February 11). Faith is what makes life meaningful, and when you have to choose between faith and fear, choose faith. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/faith-is-what-makes-life-meaningful-and-when-you-185262/

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Guthrie, Savannah. "Faith is what makes life meaningful, and when you have to choose between faith and fear, choose faith." FixQuotes. February 11, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/faith-is-what-makes-life-meaningful-and-when-you-185262/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Faith is what makes life meaningful, and when you have to choose between faith and fear, choose faith." FixQuotes, 11 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/faith-is-what-makes-life-meaningful-and-when-you-185262/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is a Journalist from USA.

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