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 EvansFrom our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
Richard Paul EvansThere are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives
Richard Paul EvansMr. 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 EvansI've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
Richard Paul EvansNo,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.
Richard Paul EvansIt was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.
Richard Paul EvansThose willing to trade freedom for certainty are certain to find the cure worse than the ailment.
Richard Paul EvansSunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Richard Paul EvansSometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.
Richard Paul EvansPeople are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
Richard Paul EvansWe 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 EvansDance. 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 EvansEverybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.
Richard Paul EvansI have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.
Richard Paul EvansI believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.
Richard Paul EvansThere'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 EvansCan you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.
Richard Paul EvansIwas 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 EvansIt is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
Richard Paul EvansHumanity 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 EvansI 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 EvansLife is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.
Richard Paul EvansThe further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
Richard Paul EvansThe 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 EvansWe 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.
Richard Paul EvansSome so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.
Richard Paul EvansAt one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Richard Paul EvansEveryone 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"You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable."
Richard Paul EvansThere are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.
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