Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

55. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

57. “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

58. “Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn’t walked on the ocean floor.”

— Richard Paul Evans

59. “Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.”

— Richard Paul Evans

60. “I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.”

— Richard Paul Evans

61. “I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.”

— Richard Paul Evans

62. “The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.”

— Richard Paul Evans

63. “Nothing heals the soul like chocolate,” she said. “I just love chocolate. It’s God’s apology for broccoli.”

— Richard Paul Evans

64. “I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there’s a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.”

— Richard Paul Evans

65. “Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.”

— Richard Paul Evans

66. “I’ve learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I’ve learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I’ve learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.”

— Richard Paul Evans

67. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

68. “I don’t know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.”

— Richard Paul Evans

69. “So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

71. “The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.”

— Richard Paul Evans

72. “To forgive is to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free.”

— Richard Paul Evans

73. “Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future,” he said.”

— Richard Paul Evans

74. “We always assume that there’s tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that’s why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.”

— Richard Paul Evans

75. “The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

76. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

77. “Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.”

— Richard Paul Evans

78. “There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.”

— Richard Paul Evans

79. “Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we’ve opened their cage.”

— Richard Paul Evans

80. “Hard things don’t always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.”

— Richard Paul Evans

81. “The depth of love is revealed in its departure.”

— Richard Paul Evans

82. “If love is our reason we may veer off course sometimes, but we’ll never be lost.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

84. “As you grow older, Michael, you’ll learn an important lesson – that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.”

— Richard Paul Evans

85. “There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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86. “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

87. “Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way – rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.”

— Richard Paul Evans

88. “Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don’t deserve it. That’s what makes it love.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

90. “Hatch never forgives and he never forgets,” Zeus said. “He’s like an elephant with anger management issues.”

— Richard Paul Evans

91. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

92. “Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.”

— Richard Paul Evans

93. “To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we’re walking.”

— Richard Paul Evans

94. “Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”

— Richard Paul Evans

95. “Your a skid-mark on the underwear of humanity. -Ostin Liss.”

— Richard Paul Evans

96. “As long as you remember the whys, the hows will take care of themselves.”

— Richard Paul Evans

97. “Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.”

— Richard Paul Evans

98. “Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

100. “The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears.”

— Richard Paul Evans