Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isnt 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, thats where you will find success.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

My Dear Son,I am so very proud of you. Now, as you embark on a new journey, Id like to share this one piece of advice. Always, always remember that - adversity is not a detour. It is part of the path.You will encounter obstacles. You will make mistakes. Be grateful for both. Your obstacles and mistakes will be your greatest teachers. And the only way to not make mistakes in this life is to do nothing, which is the biggest mistake of all. Your challenges, if you let them, will become your greatest allies. Mountains can crush or raise you, depending on which side of the mountain you choose to stand on. All history bears out that the great, those who have changed the world, have all suffered great challenges. And, more times than not its precisely those challenges that, in Gods time, lead to triumph.Abhor victimhood. Denounce entitlement. Neither are gifts, rather cages to damn the soul. Everyone who has walked this earth is a victim of injustice. Everyone.Most of all, do not be too quick to denounce your sufferings. The difficult road you are called to walk may, in fact be your only path to success.

Theres no hurt so great that love cant heal it.

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 more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.

Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future, he said.

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

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?I thought for a moment, then said, I dont know. Maybe thats the point. Good things are higher up.

All thats required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?

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

Our cultures quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the words of Crazy Horse, Today is a good day to die.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

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.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.