Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “You can’t be tempted, unless you want what is tempting you.”

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302. “Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.”

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303. “Thoughts might not be solid and always obtainable, but they become your reality when emotions are attached to them. Over time, they become your wants and form an attachment to your behavior.”

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304. “A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn.”

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305. “Arrange your life in such a way that you don’t make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.”

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306. “I don’t fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.”

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307. “Empowered Women 101: If he’s with you, it’s a given that he finds you attractive. Don’t talk him out of his attraction by highlighting all your flaws and spending your time cutting down other women’s qualities that you are jealous of. A real women focuses on what she has and fixes what she doesn’t like. She doesn’t blame people for not seeing what she doesn’t always see in herself.”

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308. “That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.”

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309. “How you correct your mistakes will define your character and commitment to a higher power.”

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310. “When does God turn a want into a need? When you feel the same way almost every day. Your thoughts can be distracted for a short period of time, but your mind will always take you back to the one place that feels like home.”

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311. “The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then you wouldn’t be able to affect them. Behind every over reaction was first the thought that your opinion mattered and your respect was once of value or you wouldn’t get the response you got.”

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312. “You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”

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313. “There are always a million words behind the silence.”

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314. “My love has no boundaries and is bound by no rules, except one: Love all of me and I will love all of you.”

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

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316. “Silence by any other name is called shame.”

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317. “Every adventure requires a compass, curiosity, a journey, a creative mind and someone willing to play.”

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318. “Have you ever thought that the battle you are in was never a lesson, but a test? Will you choose your comfort, ego and feelings or will you choose to prove your love of Christ by humbling your heart and seeing that the solution was always the one thing hardest for you to do – giving instead of receiving?”

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319. “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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320. “Commitment is the foundation of focus.”

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321. “When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it.”

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322. “There is a gap between what we know and what we want to experience. Either, fear will keep us tethered to the familiar or plung us into the sea. The bridge is either God or ourselves, and with each big decision we must choose who we trust the most.”

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323. “Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”

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324. “Addiction by any other name is love.”

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325. “I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.”

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326. “The biggest battles you face in love are the battle to know your worth and the battle to know when your boundaries need to be protected.”

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327. “But here is the thing about anger: People hold onto it because letting go means dealing with pain. It is a coping strategy that seems to show strength and confidence, but in reality it shows how much you care about someone’s actions, which leads to this question: Why is this person’s respect so important to you?”

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328. “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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329. “Every romantic knows that love was never a noun; it is a verb.”

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330. “Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.”

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331. “If they keep coming back to you, it isn’t love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale.”

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332. “The problem was never my mind; it was a heart that could never hold all that it felt.”

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333. “If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.”

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334. “Be patient and believe in your future. God is already there and is preparing a way.”

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335. “If you want to keep your eye on Christ then you have to learn to SEE.”

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336. “Great leaders get people to admit the truth because they know that dreams are buried under the lies they tell themselves, in order to feel okay with giving up.”

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337. “Always have the guts to tell people the things they must hear. Because your words, no matter how difficult to say, might be the gift to their freedom. Maybe, your unfounded fears were never theirs. Because truth is how people move on.”

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338. “Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?”

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339. “L I V E or E V I L – to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.”

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340. “God doesn’t ordain stupidity.”

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341. “Impossible has always been a dare.”

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342. “One of the easiest things for a rescuer to do is to love people without a soul because we genuinely believe that our love can fill the void inside them. Unfortunately, it drains us of our own love. The love of self.”

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343. “The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.”

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344. “Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.”

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345. “If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don’t they will find an excuse.”

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346. “What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.”

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347. “You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world; It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience.”

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348. “The meaning you apply to what has happened to you is your decision. There will be critics that have their version, but God didn’t call them to be your audience, someone else did.”

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349. “When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn’t want to be in hell any more.”

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350. “Being a good person doesn’t mean you fit the life of every person you meet.”

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