Richard L. Evans Quotes (37 Quotes)


    There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.

    Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

    Sincere love is something that sacrificesnot something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.


    I am thinking of the Danish sculptor of great fame, Thorvaldsen, who chose to be buried in the midst of his worknot in a cathedral or a cemetery, but in a museum among the monuments of his own making in the midst of his statuary and there what he made.


    In answer to the question, 'Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten,' someone thoughtfully replied, 'No, they should be reread.'

    Shouldnt the commandments be re-written No, they should be re-read.

    Be able to disagree, without being disagreeable. We must not let the things we cant do keep us from doing the things we can do.


    Give no man sympathy because he has to work it is his blessing that he can.

    There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished and all of us will some day meet it face to face.

    Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

    Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

    Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

    May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith 'If we neglect the divine ... and give ourselves over wholly to the human,' he said, 'we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism.... True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it.'


    The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

    But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

    It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.

    A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

    Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

    Happiness mainly depends on mans ability to work and the way in which he does it.

    I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

    Things I dont understand dont destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

    If we dont change direction, we will arrive at where we are going.

    Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change We have to trust the Lord God for so many things, and it is but one thing more to trust him in the issues of life and death, and to accept the fact that his plans and promises and purposes transcend the bounds of this world and of this life. With such faith the years are kind, and peace and reconciliation do come to those who have laid to rest their loved ones - who, even in death, are not far removed from us, and of whom our Father in heaven will be mindful until we meet again even as we are mindful of our own children. Bitter grief without reconciliation serves no good purpose. Death comes to all of us, but so does life everlasting.

    Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.


    May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

    Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

    The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

    Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).

    Perhaps most of us feel that we could accept death for ourselves and for those we love if it did not often seem to come with such untimeliness. But we rebel when it so little considers our wishes or our readiness. But we may well ask ourselves when would we be willing to part with or to part from those we love And who is there among us whose judgment we would trust to measure out our lives Such decisions would be terrible for mere men to make. But fortunately we are spared making them fortunately they are made by wisdom higher than ours. And when death makes its visitations among us, inconsolable grief and rebellious bitterness should have no place. There must be no quarrel with irrevocable facts. Even when death comes by events which seem unnecessary and avoidable. We must learn to accept what we cannot help.

    If you dont want temptation to follow you, dont act as if you are interested.



    With our limited understanding, often we do not agree with the time and the place and the manner in which men come and go. We see many live and prosper, who, according to our way of thinking may not deserve to do either. We see many die, who, in our judgment, have earned the right to live and whose presence among us is sorely needed. And if, with our limited perspective and understanding, we were called upon to give an explanation of the pattern of life and death as it daily takes shape before our eyes, we might be led to conclude that in it all there is lack of purpose, lack of justice, lack of consistency.


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