Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

You know you have found your life mission when you say, “I dare you to try and take this away from me.

Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point—to make people realize how much better they could become.

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

A relationship run by rules, instead of love is a relationship that is on the road to failure.

I don’t understand hospital chaplains that try to rob my patients of their anger. Sometimes anger is a key motivator that gets people to take action. Anger can push a cancer patient to jump out of his hospital bed, walk down to the nurses station and scream, “I am getting the hell out of here!”. There is a misconception that God is simply sweet and passive. Actually, God can be quite cunning, manipulative and relentless with his children. What we consider as negative traits are actually helpful in molding us. He will use a negative emotion if needed to push people to do things that will change them for the better. He will allow people or situations to derail us if there is a chance that those interactions will push us forward. Personally, I don’t want a God that is going to send some church member to my deathbed with a plate of cookies and tell me to have faith. Actually, I rather have a God that screams, “Get the hell off your ass, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Walk down the hall with that Physical Therapist so you can get on with your life! A little anger in a person can push them to do amazing things.

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

You will know it is love when the need cant be met by yourself or God.

Nobody knows what Gods plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

If you truly loved someone you wont become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

It doesnt matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.

When you love yourself you wont need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldnt have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.

Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.

Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.

If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldnt throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didnt fit this world.

Never settle on a life you dont want when God is trying to give you a better life.