Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesnt create us to be defeated.

People that dont know what they are worth will always see their captures wings, but never their tail.

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

When you cant escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.

Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.

It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you dont feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.

A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.

They said my solution was foreign because I lived on another planet. It required honesty. It required communication. It required kindness. It required integrity. It required compassion. It required empathy. It required a deep understanding of what it meant to be humane. It required courage to be something above the others. It required proving your love of God.

How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.

Leave a legacy of love, not a legacy of fear.

Your blessings lay beyond your fear.

God isnt a place of fresh starts. He isnt a hideout. He is not a destination. He is not a clean break. He is not a cop out for indecision. He is not a straight line. He is a circle. He will take you back to whatever you ran from if he needs you to heal your scars and others. He is a God of justice and compassion. The greatest growth a soul can experience doesnt come from doing service to strangers that have no impact on your life. It comes from doing service to people that have hurt you or you have hurt them. To truly devote yourself to God is to travel down roads that are hard to revisit. However, he will keep taking you there, until you have healed yourself or others.

The most important gift you can give your children is the importance of standing up to injustice. Children will remember moments spent with you. However, it isnt togetherness that creates humane parents and righteous kids. It is the example of integrity that a parent sets and the on going lessons they teach about compassion toward others throughout their lives. A good father or mother teaches their children that cruelty is not something you cause or ignore, rather it is the moment you suit up for war.

Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer.

Letting go of people doesn’t mean you never loved them. Sometimes, it is the greatest act of love because it teaches them to be accountable for how they treat people who care. Maybe, not now, but years from now, they will look back and realize that kindness is more than yelling casual suggestions to a person that is drowning in their sea of apathy.

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of me centered individuals.

Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.

It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.