Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

It's been said that the Magi, wise men, gazed up into the night skies, following a star. But they were not looking for a star. They were looking for hope. Hope of a new world. Hope of redemption. Light is not found in dark places, & hope is not found looking down or looking back. May you always look up.

but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.

Do we have dreams, or do dreams have us?

You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.

Nearly a million people take their lives each year. It's not about survival; it's about finding meaning in living. Even in our suffering

Sometimes we need the darkness to reveal our light.

My parents haven't reached out to me once. They're religious but not godly.

he was telling the story to the Pharisees: self-righteous, proud, and judgmental people who looked down on others. People like me. He was trying to teach them to look past their pride and into their hearts—to embrace the lost not with judgment or condemnation but with celebration.

What a peculiar alchemist is time—transforming painful experiences into comedy.

between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.' " She looked up.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault—it just sees beyond it as well. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

When our government officials lodged complaints over their treatment of their own people, they were told it wasn't any of their business. They'd take our blood and weapons, but not our counsel. We were so afraid of the world turning communist… The choice was between one devil or the other.