Top 40 Andrew Klavan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Do right. Fear Nothing.”

— Andrew Klavan

2. “Free people can treat each other justly, but they can’t make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.”

— Andrew Klavan

3. “The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.”

— Andrew Klavan

4. “This isn’t just ‘the way things are.’ This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.”

— Andrew Klavan

5. “The world always seems like it’s going to hell when you’re depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That’s what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.”

— Andrew Klavan

6. “No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.”

— Andrew Klavan

7. “The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, “Look how honest I am.”

— Andrew Klavan

8. “Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.”

— Andrew Klavan

9. “Stories are not just entertainment, not to me. A story records and transmits the experience of being human. It teaches us what it’s like to be who we are. Nothing but art can do this. There is no science that can capture the inner life. No words can describe it directly. We can only speak of it in metaphors. We can only say: it’s like this – this story, this picture, this song.”

— Andrew Klavan

10. “Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough.”

— Andrew Klavan

11. “A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you’ll choose the feather every single time.”

— Andrew Klavan

12. “Even the kingdom of evil came to seem to me like only the empty space where true love might have been.”

— Andrew Klavan

13. “Life’s funny chucklehead. You only get one and you don’t want to throw it away. But you can’t really live it at all unless you’re willing to give it up for the things you love. If you’re not at least willing to die for something-something that really matters-in the end you die for nothing.”

— Andrew Klavan

14. “It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach... but you’ve got to make them fly in formation.”

— Andrew Klavan

15. “It’s always the voice of God they try to silence first.”

— Andrew Klavan

16. “You cannot know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world.”

— Andrew Klavan

17. “The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.”

— Andrew Klavan

18. “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to conviction of honor and good sense.”

— Andrew Klavan

19. “A work of art speaks a truth we can’t speak outright: the truth of the human experience. Love, joy, grief, guilt, beauty – no words can communicate these. We can only represent them in stories and pictures and songs. Art is the way we speak the meaning of our lives.”

— Andrew Klavan

20. “The hungry can’t eat your tears. The poor can’t spend them. They’re no comfort to the afflicted and they don’t bring the wicked to justice. Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.”

— Andrew Klavan

21. “There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen.”

— Andrew Klavan

22. “If you’re not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.”

— Andrew Klavan

23. “It can be crazy hard. To keep your faith, to keep going. It can be harder than I ever would have imagined. Sometimes things happen to you, really bad things that aren’t fair, things that make you feel so terrible you’re not even sure who you are anymore or whether you’re right or wrong, good or bad. Sometimes you feel like there’s no one to turn to, and you’re all alone and so scared you can hardly move and so tired you just want to curl up in a ball and go to sleep forever.”

— Andrew Klavan

24. “Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?”

— Andrew Klavan

25. “Alex got angry at me because he said I didn’t understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn’t understand. Not then.”

— Andrew Klavan

26. “If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough. All.”

— Andrew Klavan

27. “In the darkness, I had been afraid that he was evil. At dawn, I realized he had been my friend and guardian, watching over me all night long.”

— Andrew Klavan

28. “Don’t worry about anything – pray about everything instead.”

— Andrew Klavan

29. “If, after all, there is no truth, how could it be true that there is no truth? If there is no absolute morality, how can you condemn the morality of considering my culture better than another? Relativism made no sense, as Shakespeare clearly saw.”

— Andrew Klavan

30. “I’m a professional journalist. Making up lies to fit the facts – it’s what we do.”

— Andrew Klavan

31. “You cannot know yourself alone, any more than you can see your own face without a mirror.”

— Andrew Klavan

32. “The gospel is good news, not good advice,” popular preacher Timothy Keller writes. “The gospel is not primarily a way of life. It is not something we do, but something that has been done for us and something that we must respond to.”

— Andrew Klavan

33. “In God, the life of the flesh became the story of the spirit. I loved that story, no matter what.”

— Andrew Klavan

34. “Because God’s reality is reality, there is no way to escape it. Because it is goodness itself, there is no way to defy it with anything but evil. When it comes to the politics of rebellion and change, the rebel can either seek to work in partnership with God’s creation or find himself outside it and thus in hell.”

— Andrew Klavan

35. “It is the paradox of virtue knit into the fabric of reality: you will not be free unless you are virtuous; you cannot be virtuous unless you are free.”

— Andrew Klavan

36. “Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man.” I recognized this on the instant as the single smartest thing anyone had ever said to me.”

— Andrew Klavan

37. “A metaphor has three parts: the object we are trying to describe, the term we use to describe it, and the idea that is conveyed when the two come together. In this, a metaphor is itself a metaphor for the Trinity. In the Trinity, the object we are trying to describe is God the Father, the term we use to describe it is Jesus the Son, and when we grasp that idea, we are filled with the Spirit.”

— Andrew Klavan

38. “I have no interest in declaring how people should organize their personal lives. Jesus said, “Judge not,”26 and I take that to heart: if you are peering into another person’s soul, you are looking in the wrong direction. But after a long life, I can report anecdotally that all the most joyful people I have ever met were married, and all the happiest marriages I have ever seen were arranged, in some sense, on the Ephesian principles.”

— Andrew Klavan

39. “To be a human being is to be a continual work of art.”

— Andrew Klavan

40. “Unbelief – this was and is at the core of our divisions because faith was and is at the core of Western culture.”

— Andrew Klavan

41. “I hope that others will find what I found: that that journey – that literary journey of the Romantics through an age of unbelief back to the entryway of faith – is nothing less than the journey home.”

— Andrew Klavan