Shannon L. Alder Quotes

Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret.

You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn't want to be in hell any more.

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.

The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.

Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.

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

Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.

Inspirational people weren't meant to be enablers. They were meant to empower!

Your religion is not what you do on Sunday. It is how you live Monday through Saturday.

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

The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.

Sometimes you can't agree with people because you would both be wrong.

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?

Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

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

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

People seldom change. Only their masks do. It is only our perception of them and the perception they have of themselves that actually change.

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

It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.

The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.

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

Some of the best mysteries end in a love story.

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

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

Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

You can't have the rainbow without the storm.

Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete.

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.