Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evansis an American author, best known for writing The Christmas Box and, more recently, the Michael Vey series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 October 1962
CountryUnited States of America
heartache denial humans
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
tests who-we-are strange
There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.
stars regret believe
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.
inspiring adversity successful
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
prayer giving-up drinking
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.
gratitude mistake focus
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
challenges succeed i-have-learned
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
adversity greatest-gifts
Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.
numbers phones soul
It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.
love-is convenient painless
Love is never convenient-and rarely painless
two people mountain
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.
stars sky
It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.
inspirational insperational cracks
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
grace forgiving faults
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.