Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice. But we will know what you have done. And in your heart, so will you. And that is more than heroic. It is noble.

The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.

To love someone is to desire their happiness. [Richelle Bach]

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it 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.

Unfortunately, large cities don't have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.

We always assume that there's tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that's why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

take it out on whoever is close. Even people we love. Taylor's afraid for Michael and so she's upset. And since he isn't here, she took it out on you.

I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing".

It's been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation—rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with.

Wars aren't won with guns; they're won with checkbooks.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

in property or rights. Equality is not the nature of the world or even the universe. Even if you could guarantee everyone the same wealth, humans would reject the idea. They would simply find a different standard to create castes, as there will always be differences in intelligence, physical strength, and beauty.

If the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. —Madeleine L'Engle

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

The measure of love isn't how much you want someone. It's revealed in what you want for them.

love to sleep. It's like being dead without the commitment

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.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

The only promise of childhood is that it will end.