419 Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

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    It’s been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation – rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

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    I loved you, Jim. I loved you with all my heart. And you left me. You left me when I needed you the most. It’s too late, it’s too late. You can’t come back.

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    Nothing heals the soul like chocolate,” she said. “I just love chocolate. It’s God’s apology for broccoli.

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    It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

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    Sometimes, it’s only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.

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    It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that’s why it’s been such a long time since I’ve been really happy.

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    People aren’t wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

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