Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love.

In the end, what will you fight for-- what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.

You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room, and still expect to see the light.

I would fight every angel between us until God said, Yes.

My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.

The best kind of happiness is a habit youre passionate about.

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know todays version of you, before they judge you on yesterdays news.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through Gods eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don’t have. It really isn’t about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

When you let go of control and commit yourself to happiness, it is so easy to offer compassion and forgiveness. This propels you from the past, into the present. People that are negative, spend so much time trying to control situations and blame others for their problems. Committing yourself to staying positive is a daily mantra that states, “I have control over how I plan to react, feel, think and believe in the present. No one guides the tone of my life, except me!