Quotes from Shannon L. Alder

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back.

You might lose battles in your life time. However, every person that stands bravely on the side of justice, for people that have no voice, wins the true battle---Gods.

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.

Always do good for others because when people try to drag your name through the mud, God will always bring a storm to wash it away.

Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

I never wanted to be a God fearing person. I wanted to grow up and be a person that was fearless for God. There was a difference.

In order to be authentic, you have to make decisions based on what you want, rather than how it will be perceived.

If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.

Never keep your brain so full that people's opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be "born again" before it is believed.

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.

Whenever you can't balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

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 it's the pain.

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.

When your heart knows the truth, it never forgets.

Never give up and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.

Nowhere in the bible did it say, "Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust." If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

Right person, wrong timing doesn't mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.

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.