Shannon L. Alder Quotes

The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.

Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.

Inside of you is your love, not beside you. She is just there to remind you of where you placed her heart.

Don't ever let someone tell you the value you don't have, in order to be in someone's life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.

God's justice is always perfect.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?

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Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.

The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.

When someone you loved finds no flattery in the gift you gave them then you must ask yourself, "What was worth loving?

If you are hurting because they hurt then they are the ONE.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

The walls you put between yourself and other people doesn't just keep them away, it also keeps God away.

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.

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.

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

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.

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.

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.

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.

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.

You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.