Richard Paul Evans Quotes

The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.

Books are the most tolerant of friends.

For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today--and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela, walking a road to grace--hoping for mercy. What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.

The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

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

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

I don't want to go to Peru."How do you know? You've never been there."I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel