Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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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352. “In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.”

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353. “Do not except anything as love without truth because love and truth have always been best friends.”

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

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

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

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357. “I am totally convinced my guardian angel is an addict because I can’t find my Adderall and she is not talking.”

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

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

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360. “If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.”

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361. “Gratitude can’t grow love higher than regret.”

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362. “When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.”

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363. “If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.”

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364. “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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365. “Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!”

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366. “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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367. “Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.”

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368. “I am not a human being. I am a human BEING. Just be.”

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369. “The question isn’t who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?”

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

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371. “When people don’t respect one another seldom is there honesty.”

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

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374. “Your mind is the voice for your heart.”

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375. “She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul.”

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

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377. “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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378. “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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379. “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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380. “I don’t fear the future. I fear letting it pass by me, without ever trying to make it mine.”

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381. “Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry.”

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382. “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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383. “I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn’t allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves.”

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.”

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387. “A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.”

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388. “Love is stronger than fear.”

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389. “Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one’s affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?”

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390. “No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.”

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391. “Empowered Women 101: A confident woman knows that forgiving is important, but sticking around for constant abuse isn’t being confident; it is called being a doormat.”

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392. “Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!”

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393. “Commitment is the foundation of focus.”

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394. “Prayer and staying positive is certainly a good start toward a happier a life, but it is not enough. The way out of Egypt requires packing up, moving on and wandering around until you find Canaan.”

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395. “Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.”

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396. “Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.”

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397. “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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398. “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.”

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399. “Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply “be all in”, rather than standing on the fence waiting.”

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400. “With humor and humility you can withstand anything.”

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