Brother Andrew > Quotes

“I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ."
--Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling”
― Brother Andrew, The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together

“I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?”
― Brother Andrew, The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together

“We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries.”
― Brother Andrew

“The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Don't curse the darkness but light a candle.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Don't complain to yourselves that you can't go to the mission field! Thank God for bringing the mission field to you!”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Why are we worried!" Rolf said suddenly. "This is God's work. He'll make a way for us.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“It was Sunday morning. I woke very early to a bright and cheery day, anxious to join my fellow Christians in this lovely garden of a land. The clerk in the hotel eyed me a little dubiously when I asked for a church. 'We don't have many of those, you know,' he said. 'Besides, you couldn't understand the language.'
'Didn't you know?' I said, 'Christians speak a kind of universal language.'
'Oh. What's that?'
'It's called "agape".'
'Agape? I never heard of it.'
'Too bad. It's the most beautiful language in the world.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.”
― Brother Andrew, And God Changed His Mind

“In the years of living this life of faith, I have never known God's care to fail.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the center of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“It’s better to obey God rather than men.”
― Brother Andrew

“One man with God is a majority.”
― Brother Andrew, Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ

“Christians need a new filling of the Holy Spirit to love those who disagree with them. And the greatest expression of love is to share with them the most precious thing a Christian has, which is the good news of the salvation of Jesus Christ.”
― Brother Andrew, Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ

“I experienced one of the common miracles of the Christian life. Our spirits recognized each other.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.”
― Brother Andrew, Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ

“Don't bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.”
― Brother Andrew, Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ

“through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.”
― Brother Andrew

“The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.”
― Brother Andrew, Secret Believers: What Happens When Muslims Believe in Christ

“The enemy is fierce and he would like for you to think that he has on. Don't believe his lie.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“God does not choose people because of their ability, but because of their availability.”
― Brother Andrew

“God really is a Father, as displeased with a cramped, niggardly attitude of lack as with its opposite.”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler

“It is never safe to call a church a puppet—no matter how dead, no matter how subservient and temporizing it may appear on the surface. It is called by God’s name, it has God’s eye upon it, at any moment He may sweep the surface away with the purifying wind of His Spirit. ———”
― Brother Andrew, God's Smuggler