Richard Paul Evans famous quotes

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

#Grace #Forgiving #Faults

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Apology #Chocolate

We are chained to that which we do not forgive
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Forgiving

...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Gratitude #Mistake #Focus

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Rocks #Vanity #Hitting

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Blessing #Joy #Natural

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Heart #Shells #Hardest

Only those who never step, never stumble.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Challenges #Steps #Chance

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Eye #Doe

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Pain #Fickle #Hours

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

#Abundance #Acknowledge

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Beautiful #Sunset #Childhood

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Pain #Hands #Life Is

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Forgiveness #Heart #Keys

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Regret #Companion

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

#Beautiful #Strong #Hero

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

#Believe #Journey #Patterns

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Journey #People #Waiting

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Dream #Procrastination #Weather

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Feet #Path #Sometimes

The 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 Evans

#Journey #Decision #Path

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Firsts #Lasts #Last Words

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Dwelling #Want #Bigger

Sometimes, 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 Evans

#Giving Up #Real #People

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

#Tests #Who We Are #Strange

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Memories #Grateful #Thinking

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Inspiring #Adversity #Successful

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Animal #Feelings #Cages

We can only lose what we have first claimed.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Firsts

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Writing #Choices #Important

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

#Numbers #Phones #Soul

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Love Is

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

#Two #People #Mountain

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Inspirational #Insperational #Cracks

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Ocean #Ignorance #Swimming

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

#Children #Responsibility #Childhood

Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Commitment #Reality #Mind

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Gratitude #Powerful #Emotion

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Challenges #Succeed #I Have Learned

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

#Hurt #Journey #Soul

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Stars #Sky

Procrastinatio n is the thief of dreams
-- Richard Paul Evans

#Dream #Thieves

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

#Appreciate #People #Looks

We 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 Evans

#Mistake #Fate #Loss

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

#Thinking #Gone #Curse