Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “The most miserable people are those that care only about themselves, understand their own drama and see only their own perspective.”

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252. “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.”

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253. “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.”

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254. “Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.”

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255. “Sometimes you don’t need to be told the truth. You just need to understand the nature of fear and how it effects the people that interact with you. It is the fear of loss that tests a person’s faith, more than any other trajedy. Never let your heart become blind to people’s weaknesses. Because when they lose faith they are capable of anything.”

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256. “You can’t selectively numb your anger, any more than you can turn off all lights in a room and still expect to see the light.”

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257. “We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.”

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258. “The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away, spouses get sick, struggles happen, family members die, senility sets in when your older, but the ability to make you giggle every day is the most precious gift God can give you to get through all of it.”

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259. “God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warrior’s for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.”

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260. “Denial is the way people handle what they cannot handle.”

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261. “Even the smallest amount of light can push back the shadows.”

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262. “It doesn’t matter how much you have in common with someone, how much you could help them spiritually grow, or even how much you love them. If you can’t help feed their most important need then you will always be pouring water into a well that can’t stay full on its own.”

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263. “There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn’t represent peace in your heart.”

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264. “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.”

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265. “Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn’t make her whole life purpose her man. She understands that he is her counter part to achieving whatever she is to accomplish on this earth with the blessings and talents God has given her. He is part of the plan, not the whole plan.”

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266. “The day your soul has died is the day you don’t care about anyone’s pain, unless it builds you up or makes you richer.”

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267. “Having dignity doesn’t require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won’t allow their actions or inactions to guide your future. The moment you feel derailed from your life purpose, in limbo or have to sell your worth, you have crossed over from love to desperation.”

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268. “You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn’t survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life.”

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269. “When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for.”

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270. “It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.”

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271. “Sometimes your inability to let go has nothing to do with real love and everything to do with what that person represents in your life. Why do you give them so much importance? Why do you believe that God doesn’t love you enough that he would not bring someone else into your life? Why do you put up with less than you deserve?”

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272. “The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.”

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273. “Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.”

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274. “You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief – acceptance.”

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275. “When you meet a dark angel don’t you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn’t an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven.”

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276. “Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.”

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

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278. “God doesn’t call us to mediocrity. He calls us to a greater standard that doesn’t teach us to tear people down to reach him, but to lift others up. Be the type of person that when people walk away from you, they know who you represent!”

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279. “Don’t beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.”

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280. “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? Don’t marry someone with the arrogant thought your spirituality will magically transform people. Instead, live in such a way that you don’t have to change or convince anyone of your worthiness.”

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281. “Your enemies don’t have a chance when your spirit knows how to run, swim and fly beyond the evil they carry within them.”

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282. “Every storm is a classroom and every person a lesson or teacher.”

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283. “You won’t find peace with another, until you become one person – not two.”

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284. “The people that understand you the most are not always the people you call family. Often, it is the person that has traveled a parallel road because they have seen the same scenery in life and can comment on the view.”

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285. “Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!”

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286. “The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.”

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287. “God will always deliver the truth when you have enough faith to believe in miracles.”

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288. “Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.”

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

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290. “Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.”

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291. “Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn’t mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don’t realize the lens is dirty.”

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292. “Learn to be a responder, not a reactor.”

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293. “When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?”

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294. “There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.”

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295. “People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.”

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296. “Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.”

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297. “When you can’t escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.”

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298. “Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.”

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

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300. “Don’t do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the “why” that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.”

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