Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn't be happy because I wasn't grateful and I wasn't grateful because I wasn't allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.

If you love only those who give you happy news, you will never love those worthy of your trust. For those who love you will speak truth, and truth is not always happy, but it is always a blessing.

Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?" I thought for a moment, then said, "I don't know. Maybe that's the point. Good things are higher up.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.

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

The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary

Grief is a powerful force that settles in the heart like a dark, heavy fog. It was familiar territory to me.

Any fool can attack an army and die. A wise man doesn't plan an attack; he plans a victory.

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.