Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

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

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just a step of faith after another.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

Life is not yours to take.

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

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.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

Iwas 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.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.