Quotes from Shannon L. Alder

Blame is a choice that doesn't give you directions out of hell.

We live with the scars we choose.

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love.

Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

The only person worth risking everything for is the one person that would never let you risk everything for.

Happiness is when you fight for souls that barely hang on.

History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.

When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.

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

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

Grace will meet you in the valley, and her song will carry you home on the wind to another sky filled with ethereal beauty unfolding and love everlasting.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

Peace is the way, not the destination.

Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.

Is not the true respect and worship of God the exercising of our power in such a way that we are also respected?

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

The best part of the gospel is you get to take it with you wherever your heart lands.

God has a way of picking a "nobody" and turning their world upside down, in order to create a "somebody" that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

Never speak unless you can improve upon the stupidness of people's silence.