Shannon L. Alder Quotes

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

If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.

It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

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

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, "What is important to me now?

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.

Love is so many things, but it is not safe.

Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.

Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.

Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

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

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.

More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

The purpose of life is the lesson.

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.

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

You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.

You can't turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn't be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.

Bitter people are not interested in what you say, but what you hide.

Look for the consistency and you will find all the trust you need. It is often found in the people that stick around long after every one has decided to leave.

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.

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.

There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God's forgiveness.

God has witnessed everything done to you. Those that love God will feel shame for what they did. Those that don't ....do not know God or have a concept of repentance or forgiveness.

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.