The Christmas Promise Quotes

“To love someone is to desire their happiness.

[Richelle Bach]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“There are few places more reassuring or safe than the arms of a loved one or the pages of a good book.

[Richelle Bach's diary]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“I've just always loved books. There's something magical about them, the ability to create feelings from ink on a page. Really, it's a form of alchemy.

[Richelle Bach]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“The price of love is the risk of losing it.” I frowned. “Is it worth the risk?” “I’ve thought a lot about that. I still think the greatest hurt isn’t to lose love, it’s the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“heard a psychologist on a radio show say that the level of anger we feel from an accusation or criticism is the exact same level of our belief in the accusation or criticism’s truth. No one gets mad if you call them a giraffe, because it’s absurd. But if you call them stupid or fat, that’s a gut check of their own insecurities.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“greatest hurt isn’t to lose love, it’s the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“To love someone is to desire their happiness,” I said.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell. Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell….” I put down my paper. “The list goes on and on. What”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“First, most people think the word prodigal means wayward or lost. It doesn’t. Prodigal means lavish or wastefully extravagant. It’s like spending money recklessly. It also means to give on a lavish scale. So, in the case of the prodigal son story, you could argue that the father was prodigal since he gave his love freely, on a lavish scale. You might even say recklessly.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“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.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“I still think the greatest hurt isn’t to lose love, it’s the regret of never having it. To have never felt love, that would be true tragedy.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“Expression requires freedom. It seems to me that no matter what you say in this world, someone will be offended.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“The people in our lives are like cards in a deck. At different times we draw, hold, and discard, but, in the end, we don’t really know the cards’ value until life calls our hand.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“Wasted dreams, I suppose.” “I don’t think there’s such a thing,” Justin said. “Dreams have value”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“They’re too busy building monuments to themselves.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“think one of the worst enemies of creativity is self-doubt.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“Any time you put all your eggs in one basket, you're just one stumble away from catastrophe.

[Terri]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“Life has a way of making us pay for our happiness.

[Richelle Bach]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“Is this hell, to be stuck in a continual loop of our greatest disappointments?

[Richelle Bach's diary]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“Love is like a rose. It's the beautiful, elegant petals and perfume that sell the flower. But those things don't last very long. The petals wilt and die. In the end, it's the stem--the thorny, sturdy green stem--that keeps the flower alive. It's what endures after the petals wilt and the perfume fades.

Love is two old people doing crossword puzzles together at the end of their lives and helping each other when they become too feeble to walk. It might not sound exciting, but it's better than that. It's love.

[Justin Ek]”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“We're two broken people, aren't we?' [Richelle Bach]

He [Justin Ek] nodded. 'That's okay. Broken things usually fit better together.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“Trust is something that's built over time, but it takes faith to make that leap.

[Justin Ek)”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise

“People always say that no matter how awful things are, there’s always someone suffering more. It’s true. It’s not really helpful, but it’s true.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Promise