Shannon L. Alder Quotes

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If only you could be yourself. they shouted. So, she did. You are not like me or anyone I have met! they screamed. So, she blended. You are so fake. they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If it were true love, he would never make you sacrifice your dignity to be with him. He would respect you and treat you as if you were sacred to his heart. If he loved you as dearly as he professes to love Christ, then he would never let anyone that loved him suffer or lower their self worth to be with him. True love is compassion, respect and honorable acts that prove love.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you want to help someone move on, you don’t label people as good, bad, worst or best. This categorizes people, rather than experiences with that person. People are not all evil or all good. You don’t teach compassion by categorizing people. Empathy and honest open communication are the only way to live your life. If you’re blaming someone then you haven’t let go of your pain long enough to really try on theirs. However, if you must believe that the only type of person that brings you difficult lessons or experiences in life are those that are bad or worse, then take the time to read the bible a little closer. Christ, put a few people in their place, in order to make point.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is a strange thing that the human species can only go three days without water and three weeks without food, before the body dies. Yet, so many people can go years hanging onto pain and feeling emotionally dead inside. I suppose if it was the other way around more people would go to school to be morticians because of the booming business, or pastors would have to hand out Valium with the sacrament, just to keep the census high.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Christ's version of kindness: I know you are hurt. I contributed to that. Maybe, I should have said more. Done more. Listened. I am sorry for my part in the situation. I am sorry if I caused you any pain or confused you with my actions or words. How can I help you move on? I want you to have peace in your life. Let's end this by communicating.The world's perverted version of kindness: You caused your own pain. You get what you get. Get over it and move on. Maybe, one day you will figure out what happiness really means. By the way, I am not responsible for giving it to you. Nor, do I have to put up with people that don't bring me joy or who I can't trust. I am only responsible for myself. I will pray for you because I am a good Christian.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you can't see the sun then too many things stand in your way. Sometimes, you have to climb to the top of all your fears to see any horizon, such is life. God needs to you rise higher before you will ever see something different.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).

~ Shannon L. Alder

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation of events. Whether this is positive or negative it triggers us to hyper focus on what consumes our thoughts. Staying positive is critical and distancing oneself from hurtful people is essential, in order to live a life with purpose.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is not your beauty, success or money that should define you; neither should your church calling, your charitable contributions or talents. Humility is the cornerstone of character, by which God judges our truth worth, and wisdom is the door he opens when we use it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

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The only side God chooses is one of commonsense. If it doesn’t make sense, it is not God.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

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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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

Self worth is not measured by what you have, no matter how full your life is. Rather, it comes from what you are, how authentically you're really living your life, and how much you are willing to give to something other than your own insecurities.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Shannon L. Alder