Top 500 Shannon L. Alder Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.”

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402. “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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403. “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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404. “Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that “selective” evilness is okay is mental illness.”

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

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406. “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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407. “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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408. “That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.”

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409. “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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410. “When did trust ever become more important than love? Then God whispered, “You never did trust me. You gave up so many times, but I knew you still loved me.” In the wind his words echoed the answer – love was always more important.”

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411. “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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412. “Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person’s history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.”

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413. “Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants... then she is not the one.”

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

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415. “Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.”

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

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417. “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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418. “All we have is “One Life”, so go for IT!”

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419. “When you understand what love is you will understand that mercy and forgiveness feels better than any form of revenge.”

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420. “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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421. “I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about me.”

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422. “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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423. “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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424. “Hold onto the wings of angels that pass your way. They fly higher than any army that has none.”

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

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426. “But here is the thing about the stars and all of it’s faults: We don’t understand everything about it, but we still love it’s beauty and wonder. We know of all the dangers, but we would still go there just because we wanted to touch the stars.”

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427. “The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.”

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428. “When you heart knows it doesn’t belong there, it will continue to self sabotage your future, until you make the choice you wanted, but found a million excuses not to pursue.”

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

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

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

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433. “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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434. “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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435. “Maybe, the lesson we can all learn from the inner sadness of a Narcissist is to see through our own fabrications, our own illusions so that we can be set free to be real once more.”

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

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

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

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

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442. “God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains.”

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443. “You really won’t know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you’re both playing the same game.”

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

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

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446. “God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won’t remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you.”

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447. “There are 613,806,639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place.”

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448. “If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.”

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449. “The good part about having a mental disorder is having a valid reason for all the stupid things we do because of a damaged prefrontal cortex. However, the best part is seeing someone completely sane do the exact same things, without a valid excuse. This is the great equalizer of God and his little gift for all us crazy people to enjoy.”

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450. “Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.”

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