Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Don’t try to write what other people are writing – write what is true to you.”

— Richard Paul Evans

153. “That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.”

— Richard Paul Evans

154. “Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don’t believe that frighten me a little.”

— Richard Paul Evans

155. “Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another’s life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.”

— Richard Paul Evans

156. “It’s not always wrong to quit. We should never hold onto a mistake just because we spent a lot of time making it.”

— Richard Paul Evans

157. “We can only lose what we have first claimed.”

— Richard Paul Evans

158. “If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?”

— Richard Paul Evans

159. “Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.”

— Richard Paul Evans

160. “Grief is a powerful force that settles in the heart like a dark, heavy fog. It was familiar territory to me.”

— Richard Paul Evans

161. “Joy isn’t the natural response to blessings – joy is what comes from acknowledging them.”

— Richard Paul Evans

162. “From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.”

— Richard Paul Evans

163. “Books are the most tolerant of friends.”

— Richard Paul Evans

164. “There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.”

— Richard Paul Evans

165. “Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.”

— Richard Paul Evans

166. “There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.”

— Richard Paul Evans

167. “It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.”

— Richard Paul Evans

168. “It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don’t even know your phone number.”

— Richard Paul Evans

169. “It’s a shame that humans don’t come with reset buttons.”

— Richard Paul Evans

170. “For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn’t be happy because I wasn’t grateful and I wasn’t grateful because I wasn’t allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.”

— Richard Paul Evans

171. “Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we’re looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.”

— Richard Paul Evans

172. “It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.”

— Richard Paul Evans

173. “It’s almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

174. “I’ve yet to read a love story that compares with mine.”

— Richard Paul Evans

175. “Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.”

— Richard Paul Evans

176. “Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.”

— Richard Paul Evans

177. “You should always be careful of what you say in parting.”

— Richard Paul Evans

178. “The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. – Charles James’s Diary.”

— Richard Paul Evans

179. “The pages continue to turn, and every day I’m a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few – but not as many as you might think. If it hadn’t been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.”

— Richard Paul Evans

180. “The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.”

— Richard Paul Evans

181. “I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.”

— Richard Paul Evans

182. “I’ve never understood why people said ‘in your own words.’ Who else’s words would I use?”

— Richard Paul Evans

183. “A man’s worth isn’t measured by a bank register or diploma... It’s about integrity.”

— Richard Paul Evans

184. “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.”

— Richard Paul Evans

185. “Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.”

— Richard Paul Evans

186. “I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we’re expecting them and oftentimes when we’re not even paying attention.”

— Richard Paul Evans

187. “At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.”

— Richard Paul Evans

188. “The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn’t work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It’s like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won’t work. That’s why so many people get lost.”

— Richard Paul Evans

189. “One day McKenna got hot enough.”

— Richard Paul Evans

190. “Home is where they don’t want to kill you,” Jack said.”

— Richard Paul Evans

191. “The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.”

— Richard Paul Evans

192. “Forgiveness is the key to the heart’s shackles.”

— Richard Paul Evans

193. “I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key.”

— Richard Paul Evans

194. “Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”

— Richard Paul Evans

195. “So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It’s almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.”

— Richard Paul Evans

196. “What the masses don’t realize is that they’re looking for a shepherd. Those who don’t think they can be influenced or call themselves ‘independent thinkers’ are usually the biggest conformists of all – and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.”

— Richard Paul Evans

197. “Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.”

— Richard Paul Evans

198. “Knowing your self-worth isn’t something others can validate. You either believe it or you don’t.”

— Richard Paul Evans

199. “We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.”

— Richard Paul Evans

200. “Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.”

— Richard Paul Evans