Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The most important story we’ll ever write in life is our own – not with ink, but with our daily choices.”

— Richard Paul Evans

2. “The assumption of time is one of humanity’s greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there’s always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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3. “It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.”

— Richard Paul Evans

4. “Old friends are memories personified.”

— Richard Paul Evans

5. “The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.”

— Richard Paul Evans

6. “Everyone has problems. It’s how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.”

— Richard Paul Evans

7. “Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams.”

— Richard Paul Evans

8. “If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

10. “The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.”

— Richard Paul Evans

11. “Life is what happens to us while we’re planning something else.”

— Richard Paul Evans

12. “I love to sleep. It’s like being dead without the commitment.”

— Richard Paul Evans

13. “What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.”

— Richard Paul Evans

14. “Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

17. “Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”

— Richard Paul Evans

18. “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

19. “People are like books, unknown until they are opened.”

— Richard Paul Evans

20. “Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.”

— Richard Paul Evans

21. “Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.”

— Richard Paul Evans

22. “The first step of a journey is always the longest.”

— Richard Paul Evans

23. “Chocolate is God’s apology for brocolli.”

— Richard Paul Evans

24. “Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

26. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

27. “Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions.”

— Richard Paul Evans

28. “Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.”

— Richard Paul Evans

29. “The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.”

— Richard Paul Evans

30. “Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.”

— Richard Paul Evans

31. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

32. “I have Tourettes syndrome.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

34. “Love is never convenient-and rarely painless.”

— Richard Paul Evans

35. “It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.”

— Richard Paul Evans

36. “Life is not yours to take.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

38. “Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.”

— Richard Paul Evans

39. “Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.”

— Richard Paul Evans

40. “I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

41. “We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk – Epilogue Page 288.”

— Richard Paul Evans

42. “Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.”

— Richard Paul Evans

43. “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

44. “Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.”

— Richard Paul Evans

45. “We don’t appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that’s true for love as well.”

— Richard Paul Evans

46. “To the thief, everyone’s a crook. To the liar, everyone’s a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.”

— Richard Paul Evans

47. “The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.”

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48. “To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.”

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49. “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

50. “If you love only those who give you happy news, you will never love those worthy of your trust. For those who love you will speak truth, and truth is not always happy, but it is always a blessing.”

— Richard Paul Evans