Richard L. Evans Quotes - Page 3

Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

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

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

Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.

The test of love is in how we live.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

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.

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

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

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.

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 interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.