Top 70 Andrew Peterson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.”

— Andrew Peterson

2. “Luck favors the well prepared.”

— Andrew Peterson

3. “Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another’s feet.”

— Andrew Peterson

4. “Our time on Earth is limited. I’m understanding that now. We can’t change our pasts, but we can guide our futures.”

— Andrew Peterson

5. “Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire.”

— Andrew Peterson

6. “Everywhere Janner looked, there were ropes, poles, platforms, and a thousand other ways to break an arm or a leg. It was beautiful.”

— Andrew Peterson

7. “He wanted to be alone, and he wanted to be found.”

— Andrew Peterson

8. “That evil was a nameless evil, an evil whose name was Gnag the Nameless.”

— Andrew Peterson

9. “All I know is that I was blind, but now I see; that though I kick and scream, love is leading me. And every step of the way His grace is making me. With every breath I breathe, He is saving me. And I believe.”

— Andrew Peterson

10. “So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move.”

— Andrew Peterson

11. “Winter is where hope lies happy.”

— Andrew Peterson

12. “The gospel gives me hope, and hope is not a language the dark voices understand.”

— Andrew Peterson

13. “He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.”

— Andrew Peterson

14. “There’s more to healing than what the eye can see.”

— Andrew Peterson

15. “When children say it’s time to leave, they mean, “It’s time to leave.” When grownups say so, they really mean, “It’s time to begin thinking about leaving sometime in the near future.”

— Andrew Peterson

16. “The best thing you can do is to keep your nose to the grindstone, to remember that it takes a lot of work to hone your gift into something useful, and that you have to learn to enjoy the work – especially the parts you don’t enjoy.”

— Andrew Peterson

17. “Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.”

— Andrew Peterson

18. “Lad, it’s one thing to be poor in pocket – nothing wrong with that. But poor in heart – that’s no good.”

— Andrew Peterson

19. “The Wounded Warriors ball cap he wore helped mitigate the grooves on his face. He didn’t think of himself as a wounded warrior per se, but he believed in its trademarked statement: The greatest casualty is being forgotten.”

— Andrew Peterson

20. “Did evil beget evil? How many people never realized it until too late, until facing the ugly moment of truth when they saw themselves for who and what they really were, monsters disguised as human beings.”

— Andrew Peterson

21. “It is no small thing to be a Throne Warden of Anniera. They have been sung about by bards for a thousand years and are accorded a place of honor like no other kingdom – like no other king – in the world – not because they’re lords, but because they’re servants.”

— Andrew Peterson

22. “How many times did a wicked man come to power and suddenly find his kingdom too small?”

— Andrew Peterson

23. “She seemed older, no longer shocked that such a thing could happen in the world, but heartbroken because it had. her tears struck Janner as the right kind of tears.”

— Andrew Peterson

24. “Sorry, lass. Ye have to seize the teachable moments, you know. Carry on.”

— Andrew Peterson

25. “Sometimes you have to do the work even if you don’t feel like it. Sometimes you have to put away your wants and do what needs to be done, which really means dying to self in order to find life. This is a way of practicing resurrection.”

— Andrew Peterson

26. “You can not blame your equipment. You can’t blame your lack of time. You can’t blame your upbringing. Either you’re willing to steward the gift God gave you by stepping into the ring and fighting for it, or you spend your life in training, cashing in excuse after excuse until there’s no time left, no fight left, no song, no story.”

— Andrew Peterson

27. “Who you are runs deeper than your skin. A man may be handsome in aspect but black as death in his heart, you know.”

— Andrew Peterson

28. “Since we were made to glorify God, worship happens when someone is doing exactly what he or she was made to do.”

— Andrew Peterson

29. “I want you, dear reader, to remember that one holy way of mending the world is to sing, to write, to paint, to weave new worlds. Because the seed of your feeble-yet-faithful work fell to the ground, died, and rose again, what Christ has done through you will call forth praise from lonesome travelers long after your name is forgotten. They will know someone lived and loved here.”

— Andrew Peterson

30. “A book is made up of sentences and paragraphs, and one look at the bookstore shelves should be enough to tell anyone that quality of writing is no prerequisite for being published.”

— Andrew Peterson

31. “But even in Christ, the grief goes on, and anyone who tells you otherwise is in denial. That’s not to say deep joy doesn’t perpetually encroach, because like a waxing moon, the very fullness of joy is destined to one day wholly illuminate our faces.”

— Andrew Peterson

32. “We’re not invited into this because God needs us, but because he wants us.”

— Andrew Peterson

33. “When we manage to make something pretty, it’s only because we are ourselves a flourish on a greater canvas.”

— Andrew Peterson

34. “Well “I do” are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I’ve heard is a good place to begin.”

— Andrew Peterson

35. “Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.”

— Andrew Peterson

36. “Love runs stronger than blood. Deeper than any name you could give me.” – Maraly.”

— Andrew Peterson

37. “That doesn’t mean it isn’t true. The Shining Isle exists as surely as the floor you’re standing on. It may be hard to believe, but it’s real, I tell you. Sometimes in the middle of the night, the sun can seem like it was only ever a dream. We need something to remind us that it still exists, even if we can’t see it. We need something beautiful hanging in the dark sky to remind us there is such a thing as daylight. Sometimes, Queen Sara” – Armulyn strummed his whistleharp – “music is the moon.”

— Andrew Peterson

38. “All the things you think are important – money, power, material possessions – none of them will make you happy. There’s no correlation between wealth and happiness. Absolutely none. It’s one of society’s biggest lies.”

— Andrew Peterson

39. “Right now, for your Podo, the thing before him is to find Leeli, not to think about how it happened or who’s to blame. And the thing before us is to wait in this old cottage without giving up hope. Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire.”

— Andrew Peterson

40. “So once someone remembers their true name, they’re cured?” Janner asked. “I wish it were so. We all forget from time to time, and so we need each other to tell us our stories. Sometimes a story is the only way back from the darkness.”

— Andrew Peterson

41. “My personal heroes are not athletes, musicians, or actors. My heroes are our military service members, law enforcement officers, and federal special agents who put their lives on the line to keep America safe from its enemies. I sleep well because they often don’t. My freedom isn’t free; it comes at an extremely high price. I’m a firm believer in the Wounded Warriors Project trademarked statement: “The greatest casualty is being forgotten.” The.”

— Andrew Peterson

42. “Tink dreamed of sea dragons and pie. Leeli dreamed of sea dragons and dogs. Janner dreamed of sea dragons and his father.”

— Andrew Peterson

43. “And it’s been so long since most of our boys have sailed they hardly know a poop deck from a chamber pot!”

— Andrew Peterson

44. “We’re in the Maker’s keeping. Even if we die trying, death is just another way out. But you? You’ll just turn to dust.”

— Andrew Peterson

45. “Beautiful.” “And scary,” Sara said. “It’s not scary at all,” said Artham with a laugh. He ran to the edge of the cliff and jumped. The others gasped and then fell into nervous laughter as he spread his wings and soared out over the water.”

— Andrew Peterson

46. “But other than the cruel fangs and the constant threat of death and torture, there wasn’t much to fear in Skree.”

— Andrew Peterson

47. “Podo and Leeli finally came back to where the others rested, and though her face still bore the weight of her sorrow, Janner could see that is sister was present. Her eyes didn’t see stare into nothing. They saw the situation, grieved for it, and faced it.”

— Andrew Peterson

48. “She poured her heart into the song and filled it with everything she felt.”

— Andrew Peterson

49. “Kalmar opened his eyes, and they were clear and blue.”

— Andrew Peterson

50. “You call that poetry?”

— Andrew Peterson