The Forgotten Road Quotes

“We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them.
Charles James's Diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“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.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“Sometimes, it's only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you're caught or not.
Charles James's Diary”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

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― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“Hating those boys didn’t do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“I found myself changing into the very thing I hated. That’s what hate does—it remakes us in its image.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“I was raised Catholic. I went to church every Sunday with my family, then came home and got beaten up by my old man. He beat God right out of me.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“The problem with sin is that, if you have a conscience, you pay whether you’re caught or not.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“I spent most of my life trying to earn my mother’s love before I learned that love can’t be earned. Earned love isn’t love; it’s an emotional wage, a paycheck for time served.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“Survivor’s guilt is a peculiar thing. Why would our psyche torture itself for doing what it was primarily designed for?”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“That's what hate does – it remakes us in its image.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road

“We never know what horrific and powerful currents run beneath the seemingly calm surface of another's life.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Forgotten Road