Quotes by Shannon L. Alder

To know your life purpose is to connect with a higher power.

The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldnt be nearly as fun.

Empowering Women 101: Every woman thinks they are the special person that was forordained to change a man. Do you really think you are better than all the women that tried? Dont marry someone with the arrogant thought your spirituality will magically transform people. Instead, live in such a way that you dont have to change or convince anyone of your worthiness.

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who “thinks” they have control over you.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that dont care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

We live with the scars we choose.

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your Gods response.

Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it.

He said, “If God lived on Earth people would stalk his Facebook page and leave nasty comments on his Pinterest site.” Then it sunk in- timing was everything and social media was the devil.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.

Most people believe the journey they begin with Christ goes forward, but that is not how he works. A spiritual life is not cutting ties with people, in order to walk clean in the future. The journey home isnt running away from obstacles. It is learning to stand where you are now and handle people, assert yourself, set boundaries and never feel your happiness is dependent on another persons approval of your choices, beliefs or spiritual needs.

Some of lifes greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you cant get on your own.

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.