Richard Paul Evans Quotes

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Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Richard Paul Evans
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
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
That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

Richard Paul Evans
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Richard Paul Evans
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
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
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
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
Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

Richard Paul Evans
The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)

Richard Paul Evans
Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

Richard Paul Evans
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
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
Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

Richard Paul Evans
Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.

Richard Paul Evans
There are those who clutch to resentment like it were a treasure of great worth. This is foolishness. The question to be asked is not how badly we were wronged, but what are we profited by our unforgiveness?

Richard Paul Evans
The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Richard Paul Evans
We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Richard Paul Evans
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Richard Paul Evans
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.

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As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

Richard Paul Evans
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
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are

Richard Paul Evans
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.

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

Richard Paul Evans
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls' most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Richard Paul Evans
We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

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

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It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.

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