Richard Paul Evans Quotes - Page 2

Without dreams, life is a desert.

There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.

I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others...

The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.

Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.

I hope you can someday forgive me.''I forgive you now.

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

Fate does not bend for us-we must bend to it.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.

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.

Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a place to start their own family; the three kings from the East journeyed beneath the sentinel star to find the King of Kings; and the shepherds sought a child in a place most familiar to them: a manger.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

My mom used to say that faith and fear can't exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.

fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel

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 on terra quaking firma.

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