Richard Paul Evens Quotes

He's like an elephant with anger issues. ~ Richard Paul Evans

We love those whom we serve (p. 26) ~ Richard Paul Evans

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't - oppose the popular voice. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes. ~ Richard Paul Evans

If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it? ~ Richard Paul Evans

The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent's love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that someday we might return to Him. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Regret is the most tiresome of companions. ~ Richard Paul Evans

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing. ~ Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine. ~ Richard Paul Evans

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn. ~ Richard Paul Evans

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?"
I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds. ~ Richard Paul Evans

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning. ~ Richard Paul Evans

For we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude
it's the chance to paint. ~ Richard Paul Evans

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it? ~ Richard Paul Evans

Home is where they don't want to kill you, Jack said. ~ Richard Paul Evans

No one marries expecting it to fail. And even when it's good, who knows how long it's going to last? ~ Richard Paul Evans

The sum of the day was truly greater than its parts. ~ Richard Paul Evans

You're lucky your mother died,' she said.
I didn't like that. 'I'm lucky my mother died?'
Between sobs she said, 'Your mother would have stayed if she could. My mother chose to leave me. She's still out there somewhere. I wish she had died instead.'
I sat down next to her and put my arm around her. 'I'll never leave you.'
She laid her head on my shoulder. 'I know. ~ Richard Paul Evans

It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake. ~ Richard Paul Evans

It's dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent. ~ Richard Paul Evans

I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. ~ Richard Paul Evans

But it was just her mind playing cruel tricks, and she tried to push away the irrational thought that Richard was still in there, waiting for someone to save his life. ~ Paul Pilkington

The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden. ~ William Blum

I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Paul Davies's The Mind of God seems to hover somewhere between Einsteinian pantheism and an obscure form of deism - for ~ Richard Dawkins

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing. ~ Richard Paul Evans

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt. ~ Richard Paul Evans

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary ~ Richard Paul Evans

It's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday's battles and miss tomorrow's promis. ~ Richard Paul Evans

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. ~ Richard Paul Evans