Shannon L. Alder Quotes

Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can't have the rainbow without the storm.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: Forgive yourself for having chosen to expose yourself to people who don't care about your feelings and help others to do the same. Enjoy life! It is as simple as changing your focus or perspective when you start thinking about people from the past who hurt your feelings. Eventually, you will forget about those types of people because your time and attention will be taken up by more positive things/people/events/activities etc. When you understand how much time is wasted trying to make people see you, understand you, respect you, value you, like you or agree with you...life becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. You are worth more than the indifference, inattention or crumbs people throw you. You are a queen that demands respect and God will bring the right person into your life to make you forget why you ever wasted your time on nothing important.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Shannon L. Alder

As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer you. When you disrespect it, push it away, play games with it, deny it, ignore it, are casually indecisive about it or hold it like a last resort, God gives it away to someone else that will cherish it more.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

~ Shannon L. Alder

One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at Christmas time. The third hardest thing you will ever have to go through is telling your child that their friend and family member has passed away. The bittersweet moment that pulls you through it all is when your child says, Mom don't cry. They're okay because they are with God now and they promise not to leave until they help you get through this.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don’t teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people’s inadequacies.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You will never know love's depth, until it is gone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empowering Women 101: Every woman thinks they are the special person that was forordained to change a man. Do you really think you are better than all the women that tried? Don't marry someone with the arrogant thought your spirituality will magically transform people. Instead, live in such a way that you don't have to change or convince anyone of your worthiness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who “thinks” they have control over you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We live with the scars we choose.

~ Shannon L. Alder

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He said, “If God lived on Earth people would stalk his Facebook page and leave nasty comments on his Pinterest site.” Then it sunk in- timing was everything and social media was the devil.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

~ Shannon L. Alder

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

~ Shannon L. Alder

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Most people believe the journey they begin with Christ goes forward, but that is not how he works. A spiritual life is not cutting ties with people, in order to walk clean in the future. The journey home isn't running away from obstacles. It is learning to stand where you are now and handle people, assert yourself, set boundaries and never feel your happiness is dependent on another person's approval of your choices, beliefs or spiritual needs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.

~ Shannon L. Alder