Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

About Richard Paul Evans:

Richard Paul Evans is an American author, best known for writing The Christmas Box and, more recently, the Michael Vey series.
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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 p...

Richard Paul Evans

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Richard Paul Evans

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.

Richard Paul Evans

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that's where you will find success.

Richard Paul Evans

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if w...

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When you travel, there really are no mistakes--just learning opportunities.

Richard Paul Evans

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

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It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly ...

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Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality?

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We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

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We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

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You can't let your light die out. Yours is the only light on my dark path. Without it, I will be forever lost.

Richard Paul Evans

Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.

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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

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end.

Richard Paul Evans

So I've been thinking. Do you believe there's a hell?" "Sure. Doesn't everybody?" "Well, what if this is hell, but we just don't know it?" "That's crazy. Hell is like lakes of fire, and there are devils with horns and pitchforks. here's none of those...

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

Richard Paul Evans

For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today--and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela, walking a road to grace--hoping for mercy. What we fail to realize is that grace is mo...

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When we hate someone we make them more powerfull than they are.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameRichard Paul Evans
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 11, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist