Quotes from Shannon L. Alder

With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night's sky.

A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.

Live in such a way that when you die you leave God in your will for your children.

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

Soul connections are not often found and are worth every bit of fight left in you to keep.

God is the only one that won't disappoint you. Everyone else is percentages of your peace.

Sometimes, the people that love you the most turn out to be the people you will trust the least.

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.

Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer.

You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.

The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

You can't turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn't be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.

All we have is "One Life", so go for IT!

Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

True love is the tide that pulls out to sea, but always returns to kiss the shore at sunrise.

You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.

The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of regret.

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.