Shannon L. Alder Quotes

#1. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. Forever echoed in their favor. "Never say never", she said softly. For you see, Forever had never heard of Never.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. Winning or losing achieves the same result
change.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character - what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn't take notice.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. Music is the emotions that words can not express.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs, or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-aid. Commonsense is the foundation of any good testimony.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles.

Shannon L. Alder

#14. Love has a way of making the sane insane and the insane normal.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

Shannon L. Alder

#16. Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. There is no failure in loving someone, only in never letting them know.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Anyone can become your best friend when you spend time together and share your feelings about life. However, not every best friend can free you from yourself. This is when you reconsider the word "best" and decide to expand your circle to include others.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun.

Shannon L. Alder

#26. You have two choices in life: Live the life you want or live the life of acceptance.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. I don't need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don't change the hearts of others you change yours.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. People that don't move will never notice the chains they carry.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. Every adventure requires a compass, curiosity, a journey, a creative mind and someone willing to play.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. We are stronger than stigma, but until more celebrity role models openly discuss mental illness we will still be stereotyped as less than capable, by an upside down world that thinks reality television is actually normal behavior.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. Telling the world you are trying is not doing.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.

Shannon L. Alder

#38. The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

Shannon L. Alder

#39. True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out.

Shannon L. Alder

#40. Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

Shannon L. Alder

#41. If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn't realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.

Shannon L. Alder

#42. I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.

Shannon L. Alder

#43. Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. Behind every angry soul is a wounded child that just wanted you to love them for who they are.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. Love may be blind but jealousy has 20-20 vision.

Shannon L. Alder

#47. When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest.

Shannon L. Alder

#48. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.

Shannon L. Alder

#51. To find the peace you never had you will need to do the one fearful thing that you have never done.

Shannon L. Alder

#52. There are always a million words behind the silence.

Shannon L. Alder

#53. Life isn't worth living if you're not fighting for something. A lost cause is a life mission worthy of pursuit just to prove them wrong.

Shannon L. Alder

#54. You don't have to be strong to survive a bad situation; you simply need a plan.

Shannon L. Alder

#55. The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You're standing in Christ's spot.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

Shannon L. Alder

#57. We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. A broken soul doesn't invest in boundaries because the world has crossed them, without mercy.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.

Shannon L. Alder

#60. A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.

Shannon L. Alder

#61. We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.

Shannon L. Alder

#62. When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.

Shannon L. Alder

#63. The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.

Shannon L. Alder

#64. Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

Shannon L. Alder

#65. When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.

Shannon L. Alder

#66. If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

Shannon L. Alder

#67. If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

Shannon L. Alder

#68. There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.

Shannon L. Alder

#69. A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.

Shannon L. Alder

#70. The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.

Shannon L. Alder

#71. Have you ever considered that you shouldn't pray for God to deliver you from your enemies, rather deliver you from yourself so you can not hate them?

Shannon L. Alder

#72. Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.

Shannon L. Alder

#73. Churches were never meant to be mental hospitals. They were supposed to be military outposts under orders to storm the gates of hell. Every believer is on active duty and called to serve a higher purpose with the rank of their blessings and talents.

Shannon L. Alder

#74. Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become.

Shannon L. Alder

#75. The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.

Shannon L. Alder

#76. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.

Shannon L. Alder

#77. After every storm, there is a rainbow. If you have eyes, you will find it. If you have wisdom, you will create it. If you have love for yourself and others, you won't need it.

Shannon L. Alder

#78. There is nothing more valuable then God's widsom. HIS teachers are sometimes the most unlikely people.

Shannon L. Alder

#79. If you want someone to help you heal then you don't go to the enemy; you go to the one person that fears a bad reputation if they don't help you.

Shannon L. Alder

#80. Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.

Shannon L. Alder

#81. You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need.

Shannon L. Alder

#82. There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#83. Sometimes you have to look past a person's mistakes to see God's presence.

Shannon L. Alder

#84. Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.

Shannon L. Alder

#85. Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.

Shannon L. Alder

#86. It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.

Shannon L. Alder

#87. The solution is so obvious, but for so many of us we would travel a hundred miles out of the way to avoid it, gather a thousand opinions on the way and take a pit stop in fear to check our map before we proceed through hell. Heaven was always a direct flight with no layovers.

Shannon L. Alder

#88. In pursuit of exposing people for who we think they are, we expose ourself.

Shannon L. Alder

#89. Always have the guts to tell people the things they must hear. Because your words, no matter how difficult to say, might be the gift to their freedom. Maybe, your unfounded fears were never theirs. Because truth is how people move on.

Shannon L. Alder

#90. Your heart's strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don't look back.

Shannon L. Alder

#91. Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.

Shannon L. Alder

#92. Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.

Shannon L. Alder

#93. The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.

Shannon L. Alder

#94. Sometimes, the scariest thing you will ever have to do is trust God to fight the battles you can no longer fight.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. The irony of being ignored by someone is that it means you have been noticed by that person first. Take heart you were seen, and yes they still hate you. However, they will never forget you and will always look over their shoulder to see if your coming their way.

Shannon L. Alder

#96. Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

Shannon L. Alder

#97. The depth of your pain will always be equal to the depth of your love.

Shannon L. Alder

#98. Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.

Shannon L. Alder

#99. The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

Shannon L. Alder

#100. When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

Shannon L. Alder