Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”

— Richard Paul Evans

102. “Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.”

— Richard Paul Evans

103. “Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.”

— Richard Paul Evans

104. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

106. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

107. “The past makes a good bishop but a poor king.” “What does that mean?” I said. “It means that 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 promise.”

— Richard Paul Evans

108. “There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

110. “Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

112. “I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.”

— Richard Paul Evans

113. “Only those who never step, never stumble.”

— Richard Paul Evans

114. “There’s no hurt so great that love can’t heal it.”

— Richard Paul Evans

115. “On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.”

— Richard Paul Evans

116. “We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.”

— Richard Paul Evans

117. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

118. “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

119. “In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions – but I’m coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.”

— Richard Paul Evans

120. “Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.”

— Richard Paul Evans

121. “Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It’s like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.”

— Richard Paul Evans

122. “It’s dark times like these that present us the canvas where we paint our own greatness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

123. “Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good.”

— Richard Paul Evans

124. “The price of happiness is the risk of losing it.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

126. “My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

128. “Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”

— Richard Paul Evans

129. “In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

132. “Is that it?” Jack asked. “No. That is the Xing zheng yuan Hui an Xun fang Shu.” “I was just going to say that,” Tessa said.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

134. “The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.”

— Richard Paul Evans

135. “A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.”

— Richard Paul Evans

136. “Love 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

137. “We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.”

— Richard Paul Evans

138. “Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

140. “We chain ourselves to those we don’t forgive.”

— Richard Paul Evans

141. “We’re all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.”

— Richard Paul Evans

142. “They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.”

— Richard Paul Evans

143. “Humans need to belong. Humans have always needed tribes. Today we find tribes in family or clubs or religion. What happens when we fall out of them? I suppose, in prehistoric times, it was fatal to be cast out of a tribe, to be exiled or excommunicated from the group, away from the people we love and need. Exile from the tribe is a form of execution.”

— Richard Paul Evans

144. “But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.”

— Richard Paul Evans

145. “Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered ‘The Hobbit.’ That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the ‘Lord of the Rings’ series. And once I’d read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.”

— Richard Paul Evans

146. “It’s been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation – rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.”

— Richard Paul Evans

147. “There are people whom we’ve never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life. Kimberly Rossi’s Diary.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

149. “I’ve wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it’s to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.”

— Richard Paul Evans

150. “The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.”

— Richard Paul Evans