Richard Paul Evans Quotes

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

I absolutely love playing the game 'Risk.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

The depth of love is revealed in its departure.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others.

The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

There can be no joy without gratitude.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

The first step of a journey is always the longest.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.