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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage

— Richard Paul Evans

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

— Richard Paul Evans

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.

— Richard Paul Evans

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

— Richard Paul Evans

I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity. Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shed sits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyalty and divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth anytime–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

— Richard Paul Evans