Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.

But here is the thing about anger: People hold onto it because letting go means dealing with pain. It is a coping strategy that seems to show strength and confidence, but in reality it shows how much you care about someones actions, which leads to this question: Why is this persons respect so important to you?

More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world cant read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

Dont ever get to the point where you cant be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give up hope. Here is to all the artists, musicians, actors, singers, songwriters, dancers, screenwriters, philosophers, inventors and poetic hearts that create a perspective of heaven we can experience in this lifetime. But most of all, here is to the wild souls that the world calls broken, insane, abnormal, weird or different because they are the ones that renew our faith, by what they overcome and create, in a world that needs a sign that God doesn’t forget the least of us.

You dont have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others for wasting their time because of your fear based decisions. The truth is when we eliminate fear we often find the real path we were meant to be on.

I dont really care if people forget me. My legacy wasnt about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you cant go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.

I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice.

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 its the pain.

When a person consistently hurts others it is because they deeply hurt within theirself. They disconnect from that side of them that is accountable for their actions. They cast empathy to the darkest part of their soul and choose to live life not in Gods light, but the superficial light of significance (compliments, achievements, status, personal gain, other peoples approval and ego). This dimmed light will never be greater than the one God gives to those that consistently show compassion, mercy and empathy. These light deprived souls are the ones that will be the hardest to rescue from hell.

Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows.