Richard Paul Evans

Life is not yours to take.

— Richard Paul Evans

I have Tourettes syndrome.

— Richard Paul Evans

“One day McKenna got hot enough”

— Richard Paul Evans

I'm a humble guy, okay?

— Richard Paul Evans

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

— Richard Paul Evans

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

— Richard Paul Evans

“Procrastination is the thief of dreams”

— Richard Paul Evans

Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli

— Richard Paul Evans

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

— Richard Paul Evans

“I’m a creative man so my fears are greater than most.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“Did you know that rats can’t vomit?” “Okay, enough. No more rat trivia.”

— Richard Paul Evans

“if you take away everything a man lives for, then what does he live for?”

— Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

“Sometimes life is like that...Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.”

— Richard Paul Evans

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Hatch never forgives and he never forgets,” Zeus said. “He’s like an elephant with anger management issues.”

— Richard Paul Evans

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with…

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States…

— Richard Paul Evans

“Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before…

— Richard Paul Evans

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their…

— Richard Paul Evans

“I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that…

— Richard Paul Evans

If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you.…

— Richard Paul Evans

“We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road…

— Richard Paul Evans

“I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love…

— Richard Paul Evans

“It is not the ability to walk that pleases God, it is the desire to walk. The desire to do the right…

— Richard Paul Evans

“The past makes a good bishop but a poor king…it's good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled…

— Richard Paul Evans

Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of…

— Richard Paul Evans

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of…

— Richard Paul Evans

“You want to know what hell is? What brimstone and burining really is?" Yes" Hell is the perfect recollection of every evil…

— Richard Paul Evans

Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath…

— Richard Paul Evans

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands…

— Richard Paul Evans

“Soon I will sleep. What shall I dream of, my love? I will dream of you, of course. And I will dream…

— Richard Paul Evans

“I have found that the people who shout their opinion the loudest are usually the ones most insecure in their position. I…

— Richard Paul Evans

“For the third time since I began, my walk has been delayed. In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my…

— Richard Paul Evans

“We live in a world that’s always making us work for love. It’s cause and effect. That’s the story of my childhood.…

— Richard Paul Evans