As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.
Richard Paul EvansNo,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.
Richard Paul EvansThere are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earthโlike the thousands of books in a library we havenโt 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 elseโs story, we come to understand our own.
Richard Paul Evans