Shannon L. Alder Quotes

If he loves you he will meet your effort.

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.

Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

Any woman of virtue won't be easy to come by. She will make you jump over hurdles to reach her.

You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.

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

It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

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.

What good is intuition if your heart gets in the way of hearing it?

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place.

Be patient and believe in your future. God is already there and is preparing a way.

If soulmates did exist I am pretty sure they would never divorce you, dump you, kick you out, separate from you or make you an option. They would never give up because you meant that much to them.

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.

You are loved deeper than any ocean. Let your mind swim through it's depth because I will never let you drown.

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.

Design a life! Don't maintain it.

The real moments that changed the world are when church members miss the meaning of a whole sermon, and take no accountability for the testimonies they damage, by being self-righteous.

Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

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

There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.

Sometimes God doesn't deny, he delays.

Stressed by any other name is fear.

If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.

Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.

When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for.

The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison to an inward one.

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.

The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.

Eternity has a way of letting us all grow up.

Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.

Loyalty is what you focus on and won't give up.

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?

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

The biggest battles you face in love are the battle to know your worth and the battle to know when your boundaries need to be protected.

People meant to be together will always take detours through pain, misunderstanding and pride, but some how they always drift back to the one thing that makes them feel alive.

Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.

To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.

Always remember that you can explain things for people, but you can't comphrend for them.

Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people.

The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.

Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.

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

She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.