Shannon L. Alder Quotes

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.

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

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

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!

When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.

A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked.

The day I found my smile again was when I stood in my own storm and danced with my tribe.

Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.

When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.

The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.

You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.

A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.

You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.

A man worth loving is a man that never makes you feel like an option.

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.

When your heart knows the truth, it never forgets.

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

You can't be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.

In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

Sometimes you have to look past a person’s mistakes to see God’s presence.

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.