Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.

If all you do is set goals and achieve them then you have learned to be a doer. Happiness isn’t at the end of the next goal. It is the journey of aligning your choices to mold your character into the type of person who lives their belief system, then creates a life purpose that reflects that same person.

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.

People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.

Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate.

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.

It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.

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

Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply be all in, rather than standing on the fence waiting.

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.

When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.

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

Dont talk yourself into falling in love with someone. Either, you are in love or you are not. True love is not a choice. It is something you know in your heart when all guilt, doubt and fear are removed.

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?